[rescue] AXi Third-Party SCSI

[Mike Nicewonger]

on 6/26/02 11:40 PM, Eric Dittman at dittman at dittman.net wrote:

>>> I'd like to add a PCI narrow SE SCSI controller to my AXi
>>> system to connect a SCSI CDROM drive so I can keep only
>>> disks on the built-in wide SE SCSI controllers.  Are there
>>> any inexpensive third-party controllers that are supported
>>> by the motherboard and Solaris 8/9?
>> 
>> Get one of the Symbios 83C75 (?) cards; thats what Sun sells (with a
>> Sun part number sticker on them).  Usually less than $100 off eBay.
> 
> I've got a couple of those, but I haven't tried them as
> someone told me the Sun-compatible cards have different
> firmware than the generic 53C857 cards.

I have sold more than a few of those non sun boards and they seem to work
just fine.

Mike N