[Info-vax] DE500 and hardware version

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <kc84m6.5s.1 at usenet.bachner.priv.at>, Hans Bachner
<Hans at Bachner.priv.at> writes: 

> Well, given your shadow sets being distributed across nodes a Gigabit 
> link would speed up shadow copies/merges remarkably.

Now that I have faster disks, yes, true, though I hope to avoid most of 
them with minicopy.  Of course, the SCSI bus might run at 40 MB/s, but I 
don't think that the sustained write-speed of the disk is that fast.

> Gigabit cards for AlphaServers are easy to get if you follow Steven 
> Schweda's instructions to "re-brand" Compaq Gigabit cards (he mentioned 
> that in the previous thread).

I'll put that on the (long) list of things to do.