[rescue] playing with the new E250 ... disk performance vs. old PeeCee

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Bryan Gurney <arb_npx42 at comcast.net>
>Date: 2006/12/17 Sun PM 12:47:56 CST
>To: The Rescue List <rescue at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [rescue] playing with the new E250 ... disk performance vs. old PeeCee

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>My fastest rescued system is a U60 that has two 73 GB 10K Cheetahs that  
>can run Ultra 320, but they're going to be on a 40 MB/sec bus.  Not bad if  
>you're just kicking around, but if you want performance of any kind  
>without having to pay the price of a newer Sun, your best bet is to give  
>up and go x86 Linux (or give Solaris 10 x86 a go).

Could you up the speed with a faster SCSI controller? If you change the controller it should only take a jumper cable to get the SCA backplane on the new controller, and if it is bootable then you're good to go...

(I'm installing Solaris 10 on an Ultra 5 at the moment with a 270 MHz CPU, 512 Meg RAM, and a Sun original 4.3 Gig IDE HD... It's taking quite a while...)

Lionel