hi

On Nov 19, 2007 10:38 AM, Gary Parker <G.J.Parker@lboro.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> On 19 Nov 2007, at 08:29, Andrew Ball wrote:
> > Can Ultra 10 and Ultra 5 workstations take ATA drives that
> > are larger than 120 Gbytes capacity?
>
> Yes, my U10 is running a 160GB drive at the moment.
>
> > How slow is the ATA
> > interface on these machines?
>
> Very :( They only do ATA33 with no DMA. If disk IO is important to
> you pop a SCSI adapter in there and nice fast drive.
>

No DMA? hmm in dmesg i see:

wd0 at atabus0 drive 0: <ST34321A>
wd0: drive supports 32-sector PIO transfers, LBA addressing
wd0: 4103 MB, 8894 cyl, 15 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 8404830 sectors
wd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 2 (Ultra/33)
wd0(cmdide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2 (using DMA)

well.. copying from network with ~6MB/s
internal (read-write) is ~4-5MB/s
> > Are there any important parts
> > of the hardware that are not supported by NetBSD?
>
> None that I'm aware of...they're generally very good machines for
> running NetBSD, imho.
>

yep, my ultra5* works nice too, i was surprised how performant it's,
especially that xfree runs @ 1280x1024@85Hz
btw. netbsd 3.1


*
SUNW,Ultra-5_10 (SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi @ 270 MHz, version 0 FPU), 2*128 RAM,
machfb0 at pci1 dev 2 function 0: ATI Technologies 3D Rage Pro (rev. 0x5c)
machfb0: 16 MB aperture at 0xe1000000, 4 KB registers at 0xe2000000
machfb0: 4096 KB SGRAM 98.924 MHz, maximum RAMDAC clock 230 MHz
machfb0: initial resolution 1152x900 at 8 bpp

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Andy