From owner-freebsd-sparc Tue Jan 20 12:37:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA03143 for sparc-outgoing; Tue, 20 Jan 1998 12:37:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gargoyle.bazzle.com (gargoyle.bazzle.com [206.103.246.189]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA03136 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 1998 12:37:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ejc@bazzle.com) Received: (qmail 3958 invoked from network); 20 Jan 1998 20:37:02 -0000 Received: from gargoyle.bazzle.com (206.103.246.189) by gargoyle.bazzle.com with SMTP; 20 Jan 1998 20:37:02 -0000 Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 15:37:02 -0500 (EST) From: "Eric J. Chet" To: Greg Lehey cc: Jeremy Kraft , freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ultra 5 workstation announcement In-Reply-To: <19980119145915.52313@lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. > > Greg > 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. Eric Chet -- ejchet@lucent.com || ejc@bazzle.com Systems Analysts - Specializing in OOA, OOD and CORBA Bazzle Systems Consulting, Inc. Software Engineering Services Empowering Your Business for Internet Commerce