From owner-freebsd-sparc Tue Jan 27 05:02:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA12485 for sparc-outgoing; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 05:02:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA12448 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 05:01:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA05685 for freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 14:01:43 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 14:01:43 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme Message-Id: <199801271301.OAA05685@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ultra 5 workstation announcement Newsgroups: list.freebsd-sparc Organization: Administration Heim 3 Reply-To: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 RZTUC(3) PL2] Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In list.freebsd-sparc Wes Peters wrote: > > I agree with Greg's thought, if you want SCSI, add a SCSI controller. I > > don't think Sun is positioning the Ultra 5 for I/O intensive applications. > > Yeah, NCR 875 boards are pretty cheap these days ($140). Can you boot an Ultra-5 from one of those? You need a SCSI adapter with OpenBoot ROM support, otherwise you won't be able to boot the beast. An el-cheapo NCR certainly won't do. Regards Oliver Fromme -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18-61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de)