From owner-freebsd-sparc Wed Jan 21 13:13:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by catfish.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA22505 for sparc-outgoing; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 13:13:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hub.freebsd.org (hub.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.18]) by catfish.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA22499 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 13:13:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from circe.bonn-online.com (root@circe.bonn-online.com [195.52.214.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA28229 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 13:12:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lederer@bonn-online.com) Received: from bonn-online.com (ppp141.dialin.bonn-online.com [194.162.223.141]) by circe.bonn-online.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA17135 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 1998 20:39:12 +0100 Message-ID: <34C64EFB.266D31E5@bonn-online.com> Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 20:39:40 +0100 From: Sebastian Lederer X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ultra 5 workstation announcement References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Reginald J. Reed wrote: > On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Eric J. Chet wrote: > > > On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: > > > > > On Sun, Jan 18, 1998 at 10:22:06PM -0600, Jeremy Kraft wrote: > > > > yeah, the all IDE made me a little mad as well ;) > > > > > > What's so bad about IDE? It's a good start. In case you haven't been > > > following, IDE has got a whole lot better in the last few years, and > > > can now often outperform SCSI as long as there aren't too many > > > concurrent I/Os. And the board has PCI slots, so you can add a SCSI > > > controller if you want. > > > > It doesn't support UltraDMA/33, It's old EIDE technology. Spend 3k on a > > box with a UltraSparc chip and have it doing PIO. The manual says that the EIDE interface supports DMA. Not UltraDMA/33, but that is useless anyway if you have only one disk. Basically, there is no port i/o on a non-intel system, the PCI i/o space will be memory-mapped. By the way, the ATI Rage II graphics chip can of course do 1024x768 at 16 bpp with 2MB video memory. Even i f Sun's X-Server did not support it, a port of XFree will. Best regards, Sebastian Lederer -- Sebastian Lederer lederer@bonn-online.com