[Suns-at-Home] Ultra 10 IDE

[Oscar Endre Edvardsen]

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Hi! This is my first message to this list, please be gentle :-)

On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Eric Rudolph Pizzani wrote:

> I was wondering, is there anyway, anyway at all of fixing the performance 
> flaws of the Ultra 10's IDE?

Not as far as I know. But you might get slighly better performance 
ditching the original 5400 RPM disk and installing a faster IDE disc. 
It'll still be pretty slow, though.

> Failing that, how does one reflash a SCSI card so it can be used on a SPARC 
> machine? I've got cards intended for an Alpha and for an x86 (Adaptec).
> I'm some what desperate to get this machine to the point where it'll actually 
> fly.

If you use BSD or Linux you could use just about any pci scsi card, and 
boot from IDE. But since you ask about sparc support I assume you need it 
to be recognized by the OBP. I know some third party scsi cards eighter 
come with, or can be flashed with OpenBoot instructions, like some symbios 
cards. Unfortunatly I don't which cards will work.

I'm posting this message from an Ultra 5 with a scsi card, but I'm not 
sure which one. If you can't make any of your existing scsi cards work 
in your U10, you could always find a Sun branded scsi card on ebay. 
They're quite cheap these days.

Oscar
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