matthew green wrote:
>    
>       That definitely qualifies as an "adult" disk subsystem.
> 
> 
> in an u5 or u10 a random ata100 card will massively increase the
> performance.  going from the onboard 2x 9GB 7200 rpm ata33 to
> 2x 40GB 5400 rpm ata100 roughly doubled the speed of MH scan(1).
> later upgrading to 2x 120GB 7200 rpm sata150 roughly doubled it
> again... :-)  and that still not getting any tagged queuing
> benefits (though write cache allows me to see upto 1000 tps across
> the raid..)
> 
> 
> .mrg.
> 

May be a dumb question, but:

If I pull out Promise Ultra100TX2/ATA PCI card from i386 machine and 
stick it on sparc Ultra10 machine, what are the chances of it working? :-)