[rescue] Wanted: Ultra 10 (or less desireable Ultra 5).

[Andrew Jones]

The IDE controller in the U5/U10 is basically broken, and will bog down the
host CPU badly.  That is to say, worse than IDE usually does.

You *really* want a SCSI card if one can be had.


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On Monday, September 16, 2019 1:19 PM, Joshua D. Boyd <jdboyd at jdboyd.net>
wrote:

> Performance of the ultra 5/10 is also improved with scsi, to my recall,
with
> is all the more reason to choose that.
>
> On September 16, 2019 12:09:38 AM EDT, Thomas Pelki
> thomas.pelki.1969 at gmail.com wrote:
>
> > I'm on the Hunt for an Ultra 10 with a 333 or 360 or 400 or 440mhz
> > processor and some ram, hd size unimportant.
> > worst case a Ultra 5 would work with the same specs.
> > the less yellow the case is the better
> > a Type 4 keyboard/mouse
> > anybody know if the Ultra 5/10 will boot from the sun PCI SCSI card as
> > i
> > have a pile of scsi hard drives sitting here i could use instead of
> > tracking down a IDE drive??
> > -Thomas
> >
> > rescue list - http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue
>
> rescue list - http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue