Subject: Re: buying more NetBSD hardware
To: Andrew Gillham <gillham@vaultron.com>
From: Rick Kelly <rmk@toad.rmkhome.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 04/17/2003 22:21:52
Andrew Gillham said:

>Depending on your definition of really.  With -current I have have good luck
>with my Ultra 10 after Chuck fixed a couple of bugs introduced in his 
>earlier rototill.

>I think the sparc64 boxes can be reasonable when you're thinking about
>a headless server with many disks and concurrent i/o operations.

I have an Ultra 5 running 1.6.1. I pulled out the 4gig ide disk and installed
a Symbios Logic UW SCSI controller. At the moment it is running off an
internal IBM 18gig LVD drive. Seems pretty fast.

NetBSD/sparc64 could use a compiler upgrade.
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Rick Kelly  rmk@rmkhome.com  www.rmkhome.com