[rescue] U10 IDE?

Patrick Giagnocavo +1.717.201.3366 patrick at zill.net
Mon May 31 13:02:42 CDT 2004


On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 01:32:51PM -0500, Matthew Braun wrote:
> Well, I was just given a Ultra 10 with a SunPCI (Penguin) though no ram 
> or drive. In previous experience with U10's I found disk operations to 
> be outrageously slow. Now, I checked the previous discussion on this 
> but I couldn't find a conclusion. I could go for an OpenBoot compatible 
> SCSI controller (and then pay out the ass for disks) but have great 
> performance. Or I could get a replacement IDE controller, and use one 
> or two honkin' huge IDE drives for decent performance. But how decent 

Spend the money on RAM and buy the cheap IDE drives.

--Patrick



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