From owner-freebsd-sparc Tue Jan 20 12:52:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA04230 for sparc-outgoing; Tue, 20 Jan 1998 12:52:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from phibeta.the-reeds.com (rjr@phibeta.the-reeds.com [208.207.21.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA04178 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 1998 12:51:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rjr@the-reeds.com) Received: from localhost by phibeta.the-reeds.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA13140; Tue, 20 Jan 98 15:49:51 EST Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 15:49:50 -0500 (EST) From: "Reginald J. Reed" To: "Eric J. Chet" Cc: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ultra 5 workstation announcement In-Reply-To: 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 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. 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. Take the machine for what it is, a LOW COST workstation with potential. I will probably end up buying a couple of these machines. If the performance isn't up to snuff, then I'll stuff an Ultra-Wide SCSI controller and disk in 'em (which will probably make them fly) all for very little money. Just my opinion. -- Reginald Reed Cisco Systems Engineering Eta Sigma Chapter - Raleigh, NC InterWorks Business Unit Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. Research Triangle Park, NC Home: rjr@The-Reeds.Com Work: reginald@cisco.com