[rescue] FDDI on Sparc 5 / Indigo2 / DEC3000

[James Sharp]

> What FDDI SBus card should I get? It seams that there are different
> available. Is it at all worth to get one? (I don't need FDDI if the card
> / driver congests trafic at 2..3MB/s.[1]) OS in question is NetBSD, but
> this will be replaced by Solaris 8 as soon as I get more RAM for the
> machine. (SS5, 110MHz, 64MB) [2]

There is no sbus FDDI support in NetBSD (yet...probably not anytime soon
either).

I've got a Cisco/Crescendo dual attach CDDI board in a machine running Sol
2.7.  It works pretty well and supposedly the driver will work under Sol 8
as well.

>
> Any experience with GIO FDDI cards in a Indio2? (150MHz R4400)

I had one in my R4400 machine at home for a while.  Fast as shit...never
had a problem with it.

>
> No questions about the Alphas. DEF{T,P}A is the way to go. Period. :-)
>
> [1] I have a 100MBit/s Ethernet card (that 3Com EISA thing) for my
> Indigo2 but it maxes out at ~3MB/s. I was really disapointed about that
> poor performance.
> [2] Yes. I don't expect that this 110MHz SS5 will be a speed daemon with
> Solaris, but I never got my hands on a Solaris box. So I will use this
> machine to get some knowledge about Solaris. NetBSD is nice and my
> preferred OS, but I have it well running on so many other machines...
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