25 Jun
2010
25 Jun
'10
2:11 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ethan Dicks" <ethan.dicks at gmail.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, June 25, 2010 9:57 AM
Subject: Re: Slightly OT: Sun Ultra 5 Keyboard
On 6/25/10, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com>
wrote:
There were plenty of cheap Symbios 22801 or 22802 (one is HVD and the other
is SE/LVD) last year when I needed one for my U5 on ebay.
I boot from a 18GB UW 10K driver off of it using Solaris 8.
And if I wanted to add a SCSI card and/or USB
card, will any old
random PC PCI one just work, or do I need something exotic and special
fabricated out of unobtainium?
USB on a Sun box I have no experience with, but ISTR there is some
favored model of Adaptec PCI SCSI card that should just drop in - the
unobtanium part *might* be that you'd have to find a SPARC boot ROM if
you wanted to boot from an attached device. I have only ever booted
from "internal" disks on that variety of hardware.
If you do find one with a SPARC ROM on it, it should be a matter of
stuffing it in a slot and powering on.
-ethan