Hi,

I'll second the idea that random ide disks work just fine, at least
as slaves.

People keep pushing SCSI disks in Ultra 5 and 10s, but, are they
really faster?  My ultra 10 with some random (and I do mean random)
cheap ide disk is faster doing disk i/o then almost anything else I
have at home and competitive with the faster (cpu wise) ultra 2 with
very fast scsi disks.  Would it be all that much faster if I had 
scsi disks then?

thanks

cheers

bruce




On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 01:59:26AM -0400, Michael Lorenz wrote:
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> Hello,
> 
> >>1/ Will NetBSD work for the Ultra 10 sparc?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> >>2/ It is complicated/possible to change out the hard disk
> >>[put in something with larger capacity], and have NetBSD
> >>easily accommodate/format it?
> 
> Not at all complicated, internal disks are likely ordinary IDE disks. 
> You might want to use a SCSI controller though since the onboard IDE 
> chip doesn't support any UDMA mode, only PIO4. The firmware supports a 
> few SymBIOS chips directly ( so it's bootable even with incompatible or 
> no ROM on the card ), like the 53C875 UW-SCSI controller which is 
> fairly easy to find ( should be pretty cheap as well ).
> 
> have fun
> Michael
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