[retronet] Hi. I'm new here.

[Wossen Wyatt]

Hi Grant

Likewise. I've used VMs exclusively until about mid last year when I decided
to hunt down hardware that could run Windows 3.1. The system I now run it on
isn't period accurate, but I do have better than VGA graphics, some
rudimentary sound and a real honest to goodness serial modem working. Due to
the last of PCI slots on the mobo I'm unable to install the Realtek 8139 NIC
I have for it so I've been trying to coax a packet driver for the onboard
NIC to work, admittedly without much luck. But honestly, running DOS and
Windows 3.1 natively is loads more fun than in a VM. But I guess that’s
subjective.

I agree it can get expensive though. So I am mindful to but thriftily. And
sometimes it just takes a bit of restraint and patience and free hardware
presents itself eventually.

I'll take you advice for disk benchmarking and give it a shot this weekend.

W.

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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.



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Grant. . . .
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