Subject: Re: sparc64 hardware
To: None <port-sparc64@NetBSD.org>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 09/03/2007 17:14:51
> What about SBus machines?  If someone could afford the $$, would a
> big SCSI drive work in one of those?

(Almost) certainly.  Compared to IDE, SCSI is a dream.  Except for HVD,
you can pretty much plug anything into anything and have it Just Work.

This case is a bit more complicated, though, because you probably want
the drive *inside* the machine, so you have connector compatability
issues - the above "just plug it in" assumes you can throw adapters in
as necessary to match up SCA to 68-pin to 40-pin to etc.

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