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Old 02-11-2008, 06:56 AM
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Default Re: Ultra 5 Workstation, PCI add-in card not detected

On 7 Feb, 19:23, Marc Tessier <r...@videotron.ca> wrote:
> there's no harm in asking. *I bought a cheap DGE-530T card from D-link and


BTW, I forgot to add: there is no point in installing a gigabit card
in an Ultra 5, from my tests an FTP transfer will be only 10% (100
Mbit/s x1.1 = 110 Mbit/s) faster using 100% CPU. NFS improvement is
negligible due to the overhead. That is in a Sparc system: the CPU is
the bottleneck, not the NIC.

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