Sean <seancody@gmail.com> wrote:
:The U5's IDE controller is the slowest thing on the planet.
:It's so slow it's very sad. I intended to use mine as a samba file
:server but it couldn't even saturate 100Mbit (writing to disk over
:network) while a crappy PC with the same drive had no problems. If it
:wasn't for the damned IDE controller it would be a great machine.

Find yourself a Symbios Logic 53c875. They boot from the U5 prom and support
lots of SCSI devices.

sd0 at scsibus0 target 6 lun 0: <IBM, IC35L018UWD210-0, S5CS> disk fixed
sd0: 17501 MB, 20765 cyl, 6 head, 287 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 35843670 sectors
sd0: sync (50.00ns offset 16), 16-bit (40.000MB/s) transfers, tagged queueing

That's with NetBSD, but OpenBSD should be the same.
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Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.com www.rmkhome.com