WS-C6509 CatOS 7.6(12) Sup1a, Upgrade Help ?

Can you help,
I have 6509's configured with Sup1a, running CatOS 7 with the following cards,
WS-X6K-SUP1A-2GE WS-F6K-PFC
WS-X6408A-GBIC
WS-X6348-RJ-45
WS-SVC-NAM-1
I am a little confused which Supervisor and MSFC to upgrade to (we want to add VLAN routing functionality)
Do I go with the WS-X6K-S2-MSFC2 or is that going to be end of sale soon ?
The document on Cisco's site listed below seems to recommend that I go to the WS-SUP32-GE-3B ?
http://www.cisco.com/application/pdf/en/us/guest/products/ps708/c1031/cdccont_0900aecd803590fc.pdf
Thanks for any advice!

Ok thanks for your help Shanky,
Do you see what I'm getting at here. I have to make a
recommendation to my boss, if the Sup2 MSFC2 route is going to be EOS EOL next, then should I be looking at skipping that and going to either the Sup32 or the Sup720 ?
Seems like I should be choosing between the 720 or 32.
The sup32 seems to be less powerfull than the sup2 with msfc2 though. I can't really place it. It seems like it's for the edge. These 6509's are core switches and will be core routers when we upgrade.

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5. Can anyone suggest a good system monitoring program? As mentioned I bought a CPU upgrade and I am a little suspicious about it. I want to know what speed it is running at. The docs that came with it say the the apple system profiler will not give the correct reading of CPU speed and I should use CPU director instead.
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Hey guys,
thanks for answering so soon.
To answer the questions asked:
The motherboard is either a rev b or c. I remember checking this when I first had the idea of upgrading the cpu. I am not sure if it is a b or c but it is definately not rev a.
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As Frank mentioned, it seems most of the cpu speed utilities use ASP for their information and give exactly the same speed reading.
I went a little more basic.
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The speed difference was more than noticeable so from this I can only assume the CPU is running at 1GHz.
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That doesn't explain why sometimes I can boot into it though.
Any of you heard of something like that.
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The 17GB hard drive is in fact 15.91 GB, sorry about that. It came in a PC I bought which was (incorrectly) labelled as having a 17GB hard drive and since then I have just called it the '17GB hard drive'.
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I am, right now, using a mouse plugged into the USB card which is, according to OSX, disabled.
Scratching of head.
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This whole boot time thing is puzzling to the extreme.
As I said before. I have installed OSX on the 6GB Maxtor drive and the machine starts up in under 2 minutes so I can only assume that there is no hardware problem elsewhere.
When I use the Fujitsu drive its 10 - 14 minutes. So from that it is logical to assume it is the hard drive. Maybe it has a really small cache or something. Or maybe the apple just doesn't like it much.
Once the machine is up and running it runs just fine. A few programs like entourage are a little slow to boot.
I don't know what the benchmark is as I have never used an Apple except this one.
For instance safari takes around 2 seconds for the icon to stop bouncing and about 5 seconds in total to be up and have loaded the home page. Is that about normal?
Another question I have to ask you fine fellows.
Can you move some of OSX's built in applications and utilities to a seperate partition and still have them function properly?
I would like to use the apple hard drive as the OSX installation disk but at 6GB, once I have installed the OS there ain't much room left for anything else.
I have already installed MS office and Appleworks and a few other apps to a separate partition and they work fine.
I suppose though that if I did that and the problem is slow access to the fujitsu disk, once I installed OSX to the apple disk and installed apps to the fujitsu disk I would still have problems accessing those apps.
i don't know really. I think I am going to have to take the machine apart again and experiment until I can find the problem.
Another quick question.
Could it be RAM? Surely either RAM works or it doesn't right?
My system is correctly identifying the 768megs of RAM, if there was a problem with the 512MB of PC100 RAM I installed it just wouldn't show up.
Anyway, thanks for all your help so far,
I think I am going to save some cash and buy a new Apple machine - any suggestions which?
Broddr.
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