Summary: Solaris 8 in 32 Bit mode on 480R?

Too many replies to credit individually, but tons of thanks guys.
Consensus is:

480R's have Sparc III procs and do not support 32 bit Solaris.


FYI - Peter Ondruska sent a link, if anyone ever needs to switch modes:

"if you really want to switch to 32bit kernel read this: "
http://www.netsys.com/sunmgr/2002-12/msg00013.html



>Folks,
>Our apps guys are requesting we switch Solaris 8 to 32 mode on our 480R
>because the app doesn't run so well on 64 bit.  Is 32 Bit mode supported
on
>the 480R's?  Thanks in advance.
>
>oisun015 # uname -a
>SunOS oisun015 5.8 Generic_117000-03 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-480R
>
>oisun015 # isainfo -kv
>64-bit sparcv9 kernel modules
>
>oisun015 # /usr/sbin/psrinfo -v
>Status of virtual processor 0 as of: 11/09/04 11:54:49
>  on-line since 11/03/04 15:34:51.
>  The sparcv9 processor operates at 900 MHz,
>        and has a sparcv9 floating point processor.
>Status of virtual processor 1 as of: 11/09/04 11:54:49
>  on-line since 11/03/04 15:34:51.
>  The sparcv9 processor operates at 900 MHz,
>        and has a sparcv9 floating point processor.
>Status of virtual processor 2 as of: 11/09/04 11:54:49
>  on-line since 11/03/04 15:34:51.
>  The sparcv9 processor operates at 900 MHz,
>        and has a sparcv9 floating point processor.
>Status of virtual processor 3 as of: 11/09/04 11:54:49
>  on-line since 11/03/04 15:34:49.
>  The sparcv9 processor operates at 900 MHz,
>        and has a sparcv9 floating point processor.
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