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Subject: [Sunhelp] cheap diff. scsi pci cards
From: Will Mc Donald wmcdonald () orctel ! co ! uk
Date: 2000-06-27 7:41:43
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Y'mean this one?
From: James Lockwood <james@foonly.com>
> On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Tony Alberti wrote:
>
> > We got an Adaptec 2940U2W to work in an Ultra10 at work.
> > MUCH cheaper than Sun's SCSI cards and the U2W supports
> > that 80 meg / sec Ultra 2 SCSI standard.
>
> Adaptec produced drivers for Solaris, they are not included in the OS.
> The Adaptec drivers only function with the /OF series of cards
(expensive).
> The Adaptec drivers only function when the kernel is booted in 32-bit
mode.
> The Adaptec drivers are now "dead" and no future development is intended.
> Adaptec will not release programming information on their cards to Sun.
>
> Sun's single UW SCSI card (the X5010A) is $199. This isn't great but
> isn't terrible and Adaptec is up in that price range as well. Other
> 8751SP cards are available for around half that price, I bought a pile of
> them from Centrix for $65/ea not long ago (but that was an exceptional
> deal). Support is guaranteed for a long time as this is the exact card
> that Sun is shipping and uses the same chipset as the Ultra 450 and
> friends.
>
> -James
>
----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Bradford <mrbill@mrbill.net>
> ANybody have the URL that james lockwood posted a week or two ago
> of the place that had cheap PCI sparc/solaris compatible diff. scsi
> controllers for sale?
>
> I know the name of the place, I just cant REMEMBER it.
>
> Bill
>
> --
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