Re: Blade 1500 - a "sound" purchase?
From: Darren Dunham (ddunham_at_redwood.taos.com)
Date: 04/12/04
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Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:06:39 GMT
Pete <mr_peter_stevenson@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Back on track re: Blade. Can I add a standard Adaptec 2940 SCSI host
> adapter and put in SCSI disks?
Does adaptec make a Solaris driver for their card? You'd need that.
> On the O2 SGI eprom branded a special
> 2940 and charged megabucks for it. You couldn't put in a regular
> peecee of-the-shelf one without major hassles. Presumable Sun don't
> force you to buy a special "Sun 2940"? Or do they.
As far as I'm aware, Sun makes no drivers for adaptec cards.
One line of sun cards is similar to a set of LSI cards and the OS
provided 'glm' drivers will work with them.
A scsi card may or may not have open firmware drivers so that the OBP
can communicate with the card. Without them, Solaris can use the card
just fine, but you cannot boot from it or see it in 'probe-scsi-all'.
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