Any Ball you wrote:

>Can Ultra 10 and Ultra 5 workstations take ATA drives that
>are larger than 120 Gbytes capacity?  

Yes.  Mine is using a 160G disk right now...

wd1 at atabus0 drive 1: <Maxtor 6Y160P0> 
wd1: drive supports 16-sector PIO transfers, LBA48 addressing
wd1: 152 GB, 317632 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 320173056
sectors
wd1: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 6 (Ultra/133)

> How slow is the ATA interface on these machines?  

I'm not sure there is a word to adequately describe its slowness.  VERY slow.

(I'll move my disks to a promise PCI/IDE controller "real soon" and have
the system boot from a CF card "just to load the kernel")

gert
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