[Sunhelp] Identifying SBUS card.

James Lockwood james at foonly.com
Thu Apr 13 01:07:44 CDT 2000


On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Kevin Stevens wrote:

> I have a combo SCSI/Ethernet SBUS card that came in a SPARCStation 20 recently
> acquired, and I can't seem to find the model number for it, in the FAQ or
> elsewhere.
> 
> The card connectors are a SCSI-II, and what I hear referred to in Sun circles as
> an AUI port - a small female D-connector with 14 edge pins.  Screened onto the
> card surface is "Sun Microsystems, Inc.", and on the back, 270-1869-02 REV 50.
> There are two cylindrical fuses on the card, and the major chips are a LSILOGIC,
> AMD, and a NCR.
> 
> Surely someone can name this tune in three notes?  TIA.

The Sun part number is 501-1869.  270- is the fab part number.  It's a
narrow SCSI-2 (5MB/s) and ethernet combo card.  Should work fine with the
esp and le drivers built into Solaris.

The ethernet connector isn't AUI proper but is a miniaturized version.

-James






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