Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 15:37:02 -0500 (EST) From: "Eric J. Chet" <ejc@bazzle.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Jeremy Kraft <db@minot.com>, freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ultra 5 workstation announcement Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980120153329.3483A-100000@gargoyle.bazzle.com> In-Reply-To: <19980119145915.52313@lemis.com>
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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
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