Subject: Re: sparc64 hardware
To: None <port-sparc64@netbsd.org>
From: Olev <hannula@gmail.com>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 09/04/2007 11:28:25
Well but Ultra 2 is really lacking on the SCSI side. It maxes out at
about 15MB/s with current drives and that's it - physical SCSI speed
is max 20MB/s. And there is no upgrade path. I have 2x300MHz one at
home and the real bottleneck is the slow storage subsystem.

Olev

On 9/4/07, Bruce O'Neel <edoneel@sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The home Ultra 2 has a 144GB and a 73GB drive in it rightnow.
>
> Previously the 144GB was in a SS4/110, which, given the speed of the
> cpu and scsi bus mean that basically it had an infinte sized drive...
>
>
> cheers
>
> bruce
>
> On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 11:18:44PM +0200, Michael-John Turner wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 02:18:59PM -0500, Jim wrote:
> > > What about SBus machines?  If someone could afford the $$, would a big
> > > SCSI drive work in one of those?  I have several Ultra 2's just sitting
> > > here.
> >
> > They should. I had a 73GiB U160 drive working fine in an SS5/170 at a
> > stage.
> >
> > -mj
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