[retronet] Hi. I'm new here.

[Grant Taylor]

On 4/8/19 9:09 PM, Wossen Wyatt via retronet wrote:
> As for the Suns, I'd like to try MAE on the Ultra 45 to run old Mac OS and
> I'm interested in cross-architecture benchmarks so I can compare the
> performance of the UltraSPARC III against the Opteron 880.

Hum.

That might be something to entice me to buy a Sun.

> They're both running Solaris 10 right now. But they're quite loud and 
> I power-hungry so I don't see myself using them on a continuous basis - 
> just for experiments now and then.

Yep.

That's why I personally do /most/ of my retro computing in 
virtualization.  That and it's a LOT easier / less expensive to get a 
new power supply for a modern computer than to have to hunt one down on 
ebay and subsequently need to recap it.

> Oh, and I'd also like to try benchmarking a software RAID 0 of the five
> Ultra 320 SCSI 10k rpm drives in the v40z. But I have no idea what tools to
> use. Can you point me in the right direction?

I think that you can use Solstice DiskSuite / Solaris Volume Manager to 
create a RAID 0 / stripe.  It's been too long and I don't remember the 
commands.  Booting off of the RAID 0 / strip will probably not work. 
But you can boot off of something else and use it as data storage.  It 
would be a good news spool.

Oracle has good documentation on the commands.  I'm sure you can make it 
work with a /little/ bit of effort.



-- 
Grant. . . .
unix || die

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