-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, On Jan 27, 2010, at 4:19 PM, Gert Doering wrote:
Hi, On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 04:09:33PM -0500, Michael wrote:On Jan 27, 2010, at 4:03 PM, Gert Doering wrote:In port-sparc64, T.Volka wrote:[..]OTOH, the IDE controller on the U5/U10 is soooo slow that it might be morefun to get a IDE-to-CF adaptor, boot from a 1G CF card, and put a realhard disk on a SATA adapter...Or, in case you have such equipment sitting around, stick a SymBIOS53cXXX and a SCSI disk in there, the firmware ROM has support for mostof them. I used an ASUS-badged 53x875 ( obviously with PC firmware ) in my U10 ages ago with no hassle whatsoever.Yes, I've played with this as well. Unfortunately, reasonably-sized SCSI disks tend to be insanely expensive these days, while usually not much faster than a 1Tb SATA disk for nearly no money whatsoever...
Well, you need something to boot from. As I said - if you have such equipment sitting around.
Doesn't prevent you from adding a SATA controller ;)
(I've always been a fan of SCSI, but these days, my heap of incompatibleSCSI cables and adaptors plus heaps of slloooww 1G/2G/4G disks really frustrates me...)
There are plenty cheap and not so small SCSI disks on ebuy. A while ago I bought three 18GB SCA drives for $6 a piece - nice, server grade Seagate drives. Work like a charm and despite being 10Krmp pieces they are neither loud nor hot. I'm fairly sure the CF solution would not be cheaper ;)
have fun Michael -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) iQEVAwUBS2C4RMpnzkX8Yg2nAQIt+wf+MBVrmUAQa6/x/R2WZKa6nq/gykU4yRdN 1MuwF+Z/kkMUpk+IlfFaBW3+HKRFeQjhx8S9G953ku+rwWOZuv08pXpRD8wzfRuX L+ZcJLI6hP9dV/9L/lLBB9lr6iToLRnFVpFNjyScdYE+bcICpxkKBlhgw7Dgl8KB X7/4FIFBalzBWyojy4JsIOAUoT+DCVEXdN0mjfmzsm+bWbkfVI6R+diki4PyMIcK AWIQLjaazuEAQ1F0NqQc316WI24mBh+kzlGIC9PzhXYfLR4bkzJ3T3TDlgusNTho qMmJJa2SflYzhWLgplA6PCVcxZPPweuY1746zsIYqTH9p2bp1KLsTA== =ddJj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----