[From memory] The E250 has a 53c860 scsi controller an the main board. It has a six slot scsi backplane for sca disks.
Regards, /Karl ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Karl Hammar Aspö Data [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lilla Aspö 2340 +46 173 140 57 Networks S-742 94 Östhammar +46 10 270 26 67 Computers Sweden Consulting ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Andrew Sharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Sparc has slow disk access Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:03:03 -0700 > Anton Blanchard wrote: > > > > > > > Try the solaris test again, Binkey, and this time use a filesystem > > > other than /tmp for the output. Try setting up a ufs-log file > > > system and see if the performance doesn't exceed that of linux. > > > > I would think that Solaris tmpfs was faster than their filesystems since > > it wont hit disk unless memory pressure pushes things out to swap. > > > > btw last time I checked, Linux on ext2 beat Solaris on tmpfs at dbench (a > > filesystem benchmark) by a large margin on a dual ultra 60. > > My point exactly: not only is tmpfs a notoriously slow filesystem to > begin with, but in this case it almost surely had to go to disk, > which is REALLY slow when it makes that switch. The logging UFS > file system should be faster than ext2, but if the PC is using a > udma100 setup and the e250 is using a scsi disk at 20MB/s, then the > faster filesystem might not make any difference. I just don't > remember what the default disk setup is on a 250, but I thought it > was scsi. What flavor of scsi, I don't remember. And I misspelled > Binky. Dang nab it. > > a ...