Subject: Re: Ultra 10, Ultra 5 workstation questions.
To: None <aball@students.prairiestate.edu>
From: Gary Parker <G.J.Parker@lboro.ac.uk>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 11/19/2007 08:38:52
On 19 Nov 2007, at 08:29, Andrew Ball wrote:
> Can Ultra 10 and Ultra 5 workstations take ATA drives that
> are larger than 120 Gbytes capacity?
Yes, my U10 is running a 160GB drive at the moment.
> How slow is the ATA
> interface on these machines?
Very :( They only do ATA33 with no DMA. If disk IO is important to
you pop a SCSI adapter in there and nice fast drive.
> Are there any important parts
> of the hardware that are not supported by NetBSD?
None that I'm aware of...they're generally very good machines for
running NetBSD, imho.
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