Hey everyone, question for you all Sun lovers out there: What is a good (and reliable) alternative to an IDE disk for a Sun UltraSparc 5/10? I just bought an IDE-to-SATA converter, and while the drives are correctly detected, I get DMA timeouts trying to write anything to disk. #retrocomputing #sparc64 #solaris
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@leosam if you can, pick up a SCSI card that has OBP-compatible firmware loaded and some SCSI drives. Apparently the BlueSCSI et al adapters work pretty well now. The IDE controllers in the Ultra5/10 and Blade150 machines were absolute dogs, letting down an otherwise decent machine.
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