Re: Cheap HVD SCSI cards for Suns ??

From: Torsten Kirschner (torsten.kirschner_at_sandbox.no)
Date: 02/27/04

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    Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 01:09:43 +0100
    
    

    Dr. David Kirkby wrote on Tuesday 24 February 2004 02:10 :

    > I know some people have used SCSI cards intended for the PC market in
    > PCI based Suns and had them working okay? Has anyone done this this
    > with a SCSI card for high-voltage-differential (HVD) ? Someone is
    > selling some dual Sun HVD cards on eBay but they are fetching around
    > $300, whereas there are some Adaptec ones for PCs for not much more
    > than 10% of that price. I don't think normal (LVD) Adaptec cards work
    > in Suns, so I doubt the HVD version will, but does anyone know of a
    > cheap card that does?

    AFAIK the LSI Logic, formerly Symbios, SYM22802 HBA is identical to what Sun
    used to sell(/still sells?).

    http://www.lsilogic.com/products/obsolete_host_bus_adapter/lsi22802.html

    eBay(.com) offers them for anything from USD 9 to 175.


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