[rescue] Sun Ultra 5 video

[Jochen Kunz]

On 2003.11.17 04:12 Phil Stracchino wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 10:07:25PM -0500, Chris Purdy wrote:
> > This machine is essentially and ultra 10 with a horizontal
> > form-factor, right? 
Yes.

> >  Will the U10 creator 3d cards work in it?  I
It should, but you can't mount it in the U5 case. The box is too low.

> (1) Does the U10's IDE controller have a limitation on the size and/or
> speed of drives it can talk to?
I don't know and I don't care. The IDE chip in the U5 / U10 is the CMD
646. The Linux Kernel has a special option only to work around bugs in
that chip. I read on NetBSD/port-alpha that this chip has a somewhat
broken DMA, thus giving abyssal performance. => Don't use it.

> (2) Can anyone proffer a list of PCI SCSI controllers known to work 
>     in a U10 without CAT-scanning a haystack for the correct driver?
I mounted a generic, cheap NCR / Symbios / LSI 53C875 PCI SCSI card and
it just worked.
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       Jochen

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