Re: PCI Ultra ATA/133 card for Sun Ultra10 (possible?) (Sil0680)

2003-07-30 Thread Gabor Szilagyi
Ben, Thanks for the information. I guess I am not going to put more effort in this I regretted to by this box many time over, but I am going to make use of it anyway. (on the bright side this is the best looking box in my server room the shades of pink are really cool). Looks like if

Re: PCI Ultra ATA/133 card for Sun Ultra10 (possible?) (Sil0680)

2003-07-29 Thread Jan Houstek
Yes. It works quite well with SI680 chipset. You need (at least) 2.4.21. I'm not sure if it is possible to use both the integrated CMD648 and the PCI IDE card. Booting from the card is IMHO not possible. -- Honza Houstek

Re: PCI Ultra ATA/133 card for Sun Ultra10 (possible?) (Sil0680)

2003-07-29 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 01:40:36PM -0400, Gabor Szilagyi wrote: > I am new to sparc, so this maybe completely silly. > > I am moving an existing server from Solaris 8 to GNU/Linux (Debian). As > I learned more (from this list and other sources) I realized how crappy > that machine is in terms of

PCI Ultra ATA/133 card for Sun Ultra10 (possible?) (Sil0680)

2003-07-29 Thread Gabor Szilagyi
I am new to sparc, so this maybe completely silly. I am moving an existing server from Solaris 8 to GNU/Linux (Debian). As I learned more (from this list and other sources) I realized how crappy that machine is in terms of disk i/o (I paid big money for the machine on the advise of a Sun/Solar