> > i honestly don't like
> > the ultra5/10 since i think the IDE disk performance is dreadful.  a
> > combination of IDE being dreadful and i hear the sun's IDE drivers aren't
> > exactly up to snuff.
> 
> Hehe, urban legends: "IDE sucks".

actually not urban legend, fact.  but i'm not going to get into this yet again,
especially on a list that has seen this argument before.

> But sure, on the U5 disk performance sucks. Here is why:

[snip]

> These disks, in a modern i386, would show snappy performance. But here we
> use "DMA mode 2", not the still slow "Ultra-DMA mode 2" (aka Ultra/33), not
> to speak of Ultra/66 or Ultra/100.

wow.  i had no idea.  well that explains a couple things.  guy at work was
complaining about how crappy the performance of the IDE disk on his 5 and 10
were, now i can show him why.  so on that note, does anyone know of a good IDE
controller that is supported by Solaris 8?  he'd rather not go to SCSI if he
can help it.

-brian