28 May
2006
28 May
'06
10:33 a.m.
At 12:34 AM -0700 5/28/06, Don Y wrote:
Zane H. Healy wrote:
Trust me, I know the difference. :^) Up until two weeks ago when
the last Ultra 2's were retired, I've spent the last 10 years
maintaining some S-Bus systems. It caused some real problems for me
2-3 years ago when we moved a bunch of the remaining U2's to Solaris
8. Of the ones I'm aware of, PTI made at least two different cards,
neither will work past 2.6, and Sun made at least two cards, one
won't work past 2.6, and one will work with at least Solaris 8. We
originally used SE-to-DIFF converters, these might be the way for you
to go. That way you can use better supported SE-SCSI controllers,
which will work under newer versions of Solaris. We used these for
years on some Auspex fileservers.
Zane
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At 4:36 PM -0700 5/27/06, Don Y wrote:
Ouch! I didn;t know there were different flavors of HVD cards!
(not to be confused with LVD cards) Are you sure these are
SBUS cards (SPARC) and not PCI cards? I'm looking for two or three HVD wide SCSI
SBUS cards
to connect some storage arrays to an SS20. Does anyone
have any that they would care to part with?
Depending on what OS you intend to use, you'll want to watch out
for which cards you get. I know most of the ones we used at work
wouldn't work on newer than Solaris 2.6.