Hey, I didn't mean to suggest that I *dislike* SS20s...got one on my desk at
home and one on my desk at work...just wanted to share some experiences.

        -Dave McGuire

On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Curt Sampson wrote:
>On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Dave McGuire wrote:
>
>> ...weird SCA SCSI vs. standard SCSI2 in the 10...
>
>Actually, I'm preferring the SCA SCSI in the 5s and 20s these days,
>since there seem to be a lot of cheap, fast SCA drives out there.
>(I paid US$135 for a Fujitsu 4GB 7200 RPM SCA drive a few months
>ago.)
>
>My current Sparc is an SS20 with a pair of 75 MHz CPUs, 192 MB of
>RAM and the above drive, and it's working quite well for me. (Of
>course, the second CPU doesn't get a lot of use at the moment, but
>I'm looking forward to seeing that fixed.) NetBSD is quite happy
>in a 512 MB machine so long as you fix the buffer cache allocation
>so the kernel doesn't crash on boot; you can actually allocate
>nearly 200 MB of buffer cache if you don't mind bringing the maximum
>buffer size down to 8K. I'll bump my machine back up to 512 MB
>after the merged buffer cache stuff comes in so we can make sure
>that all that works ok.
>
>cjs
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