The Ultra 30 (code-named Quark) is a family of Sun Microsystems workstations based on the UltraSPARC II microprocessor. It was the first Sun workstation to use the industry-standard PCI bus instead of Sun's proprietary SBus, and is a member of the Sun Ultra series. It launched in July 1997 [1] and shipped with Solaris 2.6. The Ultra 30 reached its end-of-life in May 1999.
The Ultra 30 ran off of a single UltraSPARC II CPU; however, it was only compatible with two models: the 250 MHz module (501-4857) and the 300 MHz module (501-4849). The system supports two Ultra SCSI hard drives and 16 DIMM slots for a maximum of 2 GB memory capacity. The machine also featured four full-sized PCI slots, two UPA slots, two RS-232C/RS-423 serial ports, and 100BASE-T Fast Ethernet. [2]
Item Number | Description |
---|---|
Boot PROM | |
525-1669 | N/A |
Communication | |
370-2811 | FDDI/P SAS 1.0 |
370-2812 | FDDI/P DAS 1.0 |
375-0001 | Token Ring Interface (TRI/P) 1.0 |
370-2728 | High Speed Serial Interface (HSI/P) 1.0 |
370-2810 | Serial Asynchronous Interface (SAI/P) 1.0 |
501-3028 | SunATM-155/MFiber 3.0 |
501-3027 | SunATM-155/UTP 3.0 |
501-3029 | SunATM-622/MFiber 3.0 |
CPU Module | |
501-4857 | 250 MHz UltraSPARC II Module |
501-4849 | 300 MHz UltraSPARC II Module |
Disks | |
370-2367 | Seagate ST34371WC (4.2 GB, 7,200 RPM) |
370-2809 | Quantum VK45J05 (4.2 GB, 7,200 RPM) |
370-3412 | Fujitsu MAB3045SC (4.2 GB, 7,200 RPM) |
370-3403 | IBM DDRS-34560 (4.2 GB, 7,200 RPM) |
370-3413 | Fujitsu MAB3091SC (9.1 GB, 7,200 RPM) |
370-3404 | IBM DDRS-39130 (9.1 GB, 7,200 RPM) |
370-3595 | Seagate ST39173WC (9.1 GB, 7,200 RPM) |
390-0004 | Fujitsu MAE3091LC (9.1 GB, 7200 RPM) |
390-0007 | IBM DNES-309170 (9.1 GB, 7200 RPM) |
370-3649 | Seagate ST39102LC (9.1 GB, 10,000 RPM) |
390-0005 | Fujitsu MAG3091LC (9.1 GB, 10,000 RPM) |
390-0009 | Seagate ST39103LC (9.1 GB, 10,000 RPM) |
390-0037 | Seagate ST39204LC (9.1 GB, 10,000 RPM) |
370-2369 | Seagate ST19171WC (9.1 GB, 7,200 RPM) |
370-2365 | Seagate ST32171WC (2.1 GB, 7,200 RPM) |
370-2808 | Quantum VK22J05 (2.1 GB, 7,200 RPM) |
Ethernet | |
501-5019 | SunFastEthernet (FE/P) |
501-5406 | Sun Quad FastEthernet (QFE/P) |
375-0002 | Gigabit Ethernet 1.0 (GBE/P) |
501-4373 | Gigabit Ethernet 2.0 (GBE/P) |
501-5426 | Gigabit Ethernet FC-AL/P |
Graphics | |
370-3278 | SunVideo Plus |
501-4174 | Creator Series 2 (FFB2) |
501-4172 | Creator3D Series 2 (FFB2) |
370-2256 | PGX 8-Bit Color Frame Buffer |
501-4789 | Creator Series 3 (FFB2+) |
501-5690 | Creator3D Series 3 (FFB2+) |
501-5484 | Elite3D-m3 |
540-3902 | Elite3D-m6 |
370-3753 | PGX32 8/24-Bit Color Frame Buffer |
IDPROM | |
525-1430 | 48T59 NVRAM |
595-1865 | SunButtons 32-key function I/O device |
595-1737 | SunDials 8-dial interactive graphics I/O for 3-D |
370-1414 | SunMicrophone |
370-1678 | SunMicrophone II |
Memory | |
501-2479 | 32 MB (2 × 16 MB DIMM) |
501-2622 | 64 MB (2 × 32 MB DIMM) |
501-2480 | 128 MB (2 × 64 MB DIMM) |
501-3136 | 256 MB (2 × 128 MB DIMM) |
PSU | |
300-1343 | Zytec EP071295-C 350 Watt Power Supply |
300-1325 | Lucent LP300A 300 Watt Power Supply (Pre-FCS) |
300-1337 | Lucent LP300A 300 Watt Power Supply (A116) |
SCSI | |
501-5656 | Single-Ended Ultra/Wide SCSI (SunSwift PCI) |
501-5727 | Dual FastEthernet + Dual SCSI PCI Adapter |
375-0005 | Dual Single-Ended Ultra/Wide SCSI (PCI) |
375-0006 | Dual Differential Ultra/Wide SCSI (PCI) |
540-3016 | Floppy and SCSI Adapter (Drive Bay FRU) |
330-2148 | Floppy and SCSI Adapter (Drive Bay) |
530-2322 | Floppy and SCSI Adapter (Cable Assembly) |
System Board | |
501-3139 | 0MB FRU |
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