Subject: Re: ultra 10 or ultra 60?
To: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
From: Brian Hechinger <wonko@arkham.ws>
List: port-sparc
Date: 03/29/2002 09:01:20
On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 03:09:07PM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote:
> > I have to decide if to buy a ultra 10 or a ultra 60.
>
> Someone told me the rule of thumb for PCI based ultra sparcs is:
> if x > y then prefere a Ux to an Uy
a u60 will STOMP a u10 hands down.
> Not sure, I let other answer this.
that's a good question. u60s are coming down in price. it may be time for a
new NetBSD/sparc build machine. ;)
> Beware that the U10 (IIRC) does not do UDMA with it's build in pciide
> controller, I don't know about the U60.
u60 is SCSI based, not IDE based.
-brian
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