On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 11:33:42AM -0800, Greywolf wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Peter Seebach wrote:
> 
> # So, my Sparc 5 became available for whatever I feel like running on it.  My
> # first idea was to try setting it up running NetBSD.  I've put in a pair of
> # drives, and I'm pretty sure they're both Ultra2/Wide/LVD.  I expected them
> # to show up as Fast/Wide or Ultra/Wide, but in fact, they're just showing up
> # as Fast/Narrow.  Does the SS5 not support wide devices?
> 
> Not unless you get a wide SBUS card (Sun and Qlogic make them).

Even if you do this, I'm not sure you'll see much effect on a machine
this slow.  Anyone have a counter opinion?

The reason I ask is that I do get fairly decent speed out of my little
SS5, and I've seen some dirt cheap prices on used wide controllers,
but didn't get them because I figure the machine is too slow to make
use of them.

But I'd love to be wrong about that... :)

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