Re: Sun 3/80 questions
"Curtis H. Wilbar Jr." <[email protected]>
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>To: [email protected] >Cc: [email protected] >Subject: Re: Sun 3/80 questions >From: Izumi Tsutsui <[email protected]> >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 00:15:00 +0900 > >> What are you using for a driver ? Looking at 1.6.1 it looks like there >> are only drivers for bw2, cg3, and cg4. >> >> Are you just accessing it as a cg3 ? > >While cg6 can be accessed as cg3, I'm using serial console. I'd love to get my cg8 working under NetBSD and X11R6... but other than looking good, I have to wonder exactly how "bad" the performance will be :-) > >> Bummer on sync transfer.... this thing is a turtle accessing the disk.... >> I think eventually I'll pull the 7200RPM drive as it is probably giving >> me zero advantage in that box. > >3/80 is slow enough for modern SCSI drives anyway Wonder if ethernet throughput is faster ? I'll have to try some measurements.... >though it's still faster than 3/60... Wonder how NetBSD (or SunOS 4.1.1_U1) will be on my Sun 3/50 :-) (at least it has the aftermarket upgrade to 12 Meg of RAM ! woo hoo !) >--- >Izumi Tsutsui >[email protected] -- Curt