Need PCI SCSI controller for Sparc
I am perplexed at how difficult it is to get a Sparc-based PCI SCSI controller. I need help.If I search man section 7d of Solaris 9 I can find glm, isp, mpt, ncrs, and syshisl which appear to be drivers for PCI SCSI controllers on Sparc, but no idea of where to buy one (none of these are Adaptec, which I do know where to buy). If I search the Sun Store I can find part numbers for SCSI controllers but absolutely no description of them or which drivers they use. If I search the Sun documentation site I can find a few SCSI controllers mentioned but not referred to by the part numbers on the Sun store, so I still cannot get ordering info. When I search BigAdmin for driver support I find the pages dont tell me which architecture a driver is for. For example, I look up common Adaptec controllers and find drivers such as adp, cadp cadp160 but the web pages neglect to say they are for x86 only.
This is what I need- PCI SCSI controller for SunBlade 100 and SunFire V120, Ultra 2 (LVD).
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avhays] at [2007-11-26 10:29:53]
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Go online to the Sun System Handbook. It's your resource for hardware information.
http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub
You find the SB100 and the V120 in the list of EOL systems (both are discontinued models).
http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/eolSystemList.html
For each computer, you can review the "Full Components List" link,
where there is a section that displays SCSI adapters,
including their part numbers and their sales option numbers.
You will be able to see that there was only one LVD card qualified
to function properly in the V120.You will also be able to see
that there weren't any LVD cards ever qualified in the SB100.
I anticipate the x6758a card will work fine in both, .
The SunBlade 100 desktop system is so old that it was already End-Of-Llife (EOL)
before Sun started to ship the SCSI card.Thus there was no reason
to go backwards and qualify the card to a disco'd platform.
If you do decide to purchase and install that card, be sure to read its manual carefully.
You will need to install separate driver software to the computers.
The QUS drivers ship with newly purchased x6758a cards, or can be downloaded from Sun.
... not difficult at all.
