even if it would be a bad controller, would any PC IDE disks (let's say
UDMA/33 one) fit in U5 or Blade100 or must I plug SUN specific IDE
drives ?

thX to all for all the infos !
	Jo

On the last episode, Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org> said to Matt
Prazak <prazak@scra.org>:

> On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 02:59:44PM -0400, Matt Prazak wrote:
> > The CPU in the Blade 100 is relatively weak, and it is probably
> > comparable to the higher-end Ultra 5s.  The main advantages to the
> > Blade 100 are USB, 2GB maximum RAM, newer framebuffer options, and a
> > smartcard reader.  Otherwise the Ultra 5 and Blade 100 are
> > comparable with IDE disks and the typical desktop enclosure.  Used
> > Ultra 5s are
> 
> Well, the IDE controller in the Blade 100 should be *much better* than
> the U5. For the U5 they used the worse IDE controller still in
> production :)
> 
> -- 
> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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