Replace T2000 internal PCI-X card?

I have several T2000 machines that were purchased on the assumption that
one could attach two external drive bays, with each bay attached to an HDA
card in the two PCI-X slots.
But the machines have only one external PCI-X slot available --
the other one is used by the internal drives.
Apparently, only newer models have both slots free.

I thought I'd try replacing the internal PCI-X card with an LSI 3442X,
cable the internal drives to it, and use its external connector for a drive bay.
But no joy -- the POST IO-Bridge tests fail with the following:
...
Test: IO-Bridge unit 1 PCI id test
PCI ID test data miscompare
EXP VID: 0000001000
OBS VID: 0000001000
EXP DID: 0000000050
OBS DID: 0000000054

Since the 3442X has vendor id 1000 and device id 54, I suspect the ALOM-CMT
has device-id 50 embedded somewhere.
Can it be told to change this?
Is there any hope of connecting external drives to 2 PCI-X HDAs on this box?


Thanks,
-- Ken Lalonde, Toronto


System specs:
Model: T2000 (T20-108A-16GA2C)
# uname -a
SunOS bumble.tfs.ca 5.10 Generic_118833-17 sun4v sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-T200
# cat /etc/release
Solaris 10 6/06 s10s_u2wos_09a SPARC
Copyright 2006 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
Assembled 09 June 2006
sc> showsc version -v
Advanced Lights Out Manager CMT v1.1.6
SC Firmware version: CMT 1.1.6
SC Bootmon version: CMT 1.1.6

VBSC 1.1.5
VBSC firmware built May 9 2006, 11:28:17

SC Bootmon Build Release: 01
SC bootmon checksum: 7416BA67
SC Bootmon built May 9 2006, 11:43:18

SC Build Release: 01
SC firmware checksum: 68D5EDEB

SC firmware built May 9 2006, 11:43:31
SC firmware flashupdate JUL 21 2006, 21:45:10

SC System Memory Size: 32 MB
SC NVRAM Version = f
SC hardware type: 4

FPGA Version: 4.1.10.7
c> showhost
Host flash versions:
Reset V1.1.5
Hypervisor 1.1.1 2006/02/24 06:38
OBP 4.20.4 2006/05/12 14:13
Sun Fire[TM] T2000 POST 4.20.2 2006/03/02 19:31
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