[SunRescue] Sun 3/50 and SLC

[Sam Creasey]

On Mon, 8 May 2000, Martin Frost wrote:

> Sam Creasey wrote:
> 
> > > Sun 3 ethernet is very poor at best. Packet loss probably is not good
> > > even by sun3 standards, but otherwise, expet 300kB/sec at maximum.
> 
> > FTP'ing a file to my linux-running sun3 shows:
> > 8640054 bytes received in 14.2 secs (6e+02 Kbytes/sec)
> 
> I seem to remember a discussion on the Linux/sun3 mailing list that
> there may be a bad capacitor somewhere in the onboard 10base-2
> transceiver, which can dry out after a long period, causing spurious
> packet loss. Suggested fix was to use an external transceiver.
> 
> On Linux/sun3, however, the ethernet driver *far* outperforms the
> SCSI driver. I believe it's still true that NFS is faster than local
> disks. ;)

Oh, god yes. :)   NFS is faster than *dma* scsi by a factor of 2-3x. 



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