[SunRescue] Woah, a PCI Ultra 1

[Jeffrey Meltzer]

Sun didn't plan the PCI slots out very well either...The SunPCi card just
fits in on the side with 2 slots, but try and stick a PGX32 PCI card in
the other side...gotta really smush those cables down.

-- 
Jeffrey Meltzer
VillageWorld.com, Inc.
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On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, David Murphy wrote:

> Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 10:14:20 +0000
> From: David Murphy <drjolt+sunrescue at redbrick.dcu.ie>
> Reply-To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Woah, a PCI Ultra 1
> 
> Quoting <14531.18430.372306.100726 at phaduka.neurotica.com>
> by Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com>:
> 
> > > Does the Ultra5 have anything going for it besides price?  With
> > > starting prices at $2000 for new systems, they do seem like a
> > > really good deal.
> 
> > Seems to me that it's a PC with a SPARC processor on the board
> > instead of a Wintel chip. Cheapass PeeCee case design, cheapass
> > PeeCee power supply, cheapass IDE disks, etc etc...
> 
> Actually, the PCs of today have much better case design/internal
> layouts than the Ultra 5 - it's like a mid-80s desktop PC inside. IMHO
> however, the Ultra 10 is much worse - so many people buy it as a
> low-end server, 'cos it can take 2 internal disks and they want to
> mirror them, never realising that Sun ship both IDE disks on the same
> channel, so if one disk does fail, it'll take the other with it.
> 
>