Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 11:36:17 -0500 (EST) From: Marc Williams <security@tomco.net> To: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> Cc: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ultra 5 workstation announcement Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980128112916.11029B-100000@apollo.tomco.net> In-Reply-To: <199801272155.NAA05021@feral.com>
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If the "Sun driver writer" is going to be yelled at I think his time would be better spent developing a concatenated disk driver that would allow software based RAID 0 (disk striping) across two or more adaptec 2940UW controllers. I have flawlessly cycled about 4GB per day for a year on my FreeBSD PC server running innd1.5 with this technology and it is a beautiful thing! Marcus R. Williams, Jr. security@tomco.net ISP Programmer / Engineer On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Matthew Jacob wrote: > Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 13:55:53 -0800 > From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> > To: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Ultra 5 workstation announcement > > >From owner-freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Tue Jan 27 05:10:07 1998 > >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 > > Not quite true. The glm hba driver and random otehr NCR boards > do work on the PCI SCSI cards. If you have problems, I can > also go yell at the Sun driver writer. >
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