Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 15:49:50 -0500 (EST) From: "Reginald J. Reed" <rjr@the-reeds.com> To: "Eric J. Chet" <ejc@bazzle.com> Cc: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ultra 5 workstation announcement Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.980120154444.12073E-100000@phibeta.the-reeds.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980120153329.3483A-100000@gargoyle.bazzle.com>
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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
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