Linked by Will Senn on Tue 26th Apr 2005 20:14 UTC
Wow! With Solaris 10, Sun Microsystems has done a marvelous job of bringing Solaris fully into the x86 world. Gone are the days when Solaris only runs on Sun hardware or when it only runs well on Sun hardware. Solaris 10 comes with greatly expanded off-the-shelf x86 hardware compatibility and a license that is hard to beat. It's a binary right to use and Open Solaris, the open source version is soon to come. IT Managers that have been wanting to bring a stable, scalable Operating Environment into their network infrastructures, but who have been unwilling to commit to the Sun hardware platform, for various reasons, are now free, pun intended, to bring Solaris on board and to run it on the hardware of their choice. 
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Here's a question maybe you can answer for me. What is the recommended maxphys for an IDE system? I have asked this question before and got no response. According to this document, the default maxphys for x86 is 57,344:
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-0404/6mg74vs9m?a=view
for Solaris 10
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-0404/6mg74vs9m?q=maxphys&a=vie...
Keeping in mind that you are not supposed to modify any parameter other than the blocking factor in ata.conf, will setting the maxphys to something other than 57,344 actually help? Considering the vast majority of people installing Solaris are going to be doing it on IDE systems, this could potentially help them with poor performance.