AT&T 3b2 vs SCSI2SD drive replacement

Pete Turnbull pete at dunnington.plus.com
Wed Jun 1 14:17:09 CDT 2016


On 01/06/2016 18:36, Jerry Kemp wrote:
> We have recently had activity on the list discussing AT&T 3b2 related
> stuff, then earlier today we have had discussions concerning the SCSI2SD
> drive replacement hardware.
>
> I was reviewing the online documentation for SCSI2SD, specifically here:

> Wondering if anyone here is using SCSI2SD on their 3b2's, and if so,
> what are your experiences?  Hopefully working well?

Not personally (yet) but for a while I've been looking at comments in 
the Nekochan forums, thinking about using it on one of my SGIs. 
Consensus is that it's rather slow.  Not so slow that it's awful on an 
Indy (apart maybe from booting), but noticeably slower than people 
expect on faster machines.  The ACARD ones seem to be faster.  Perhaps 
it won't matter for older machines.

-- 
Pete


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