[rescue] Ultra 10

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james at foonly.com wrote:

> I'm sure this is a VFAQ.


It's gotta be, but I didn't find an answer anywhere. Thanks for
answering.


>  You want a Symbios 53c875 based SCSI card such
> as the 8751SP.


Want, or have to use? There's a difference. Whatever you may think of
overpriced Adaptecs, I happen to have a 2940UW2 LVD/SE card and a couple
of LVD drives sitting here, and would love to have their 80Mb/s transfer
rate rather than the 40Mb/s I'll get using those same drives with the
SYmbios card. If the Adaptec just plain won't work, that's
understandable, but I'd like to use the best I've got if it'll do the
job. Yes?


>  This will be supported with the native Solaris glm driver
> and is fully bootable.  They're relatively cheap, in the $50-100 range
> new.


Yeah, I have some. Well, the same guy I got the U/10 from does, and I
can have one for the asking (actually I'll trade him an Adaptec 2940UW
for it, but it's all the same to me if there's no cash changing hands).
But I have to ask again...

Will the Adaptec work, or not?


> Adaptec has always been overpriced, I'm not sure why they've got such an
> extensive following.

Because they just plain work in peecee hardware, no matter what. What I
don't know is if they work in Sun hardware.


Thanks,

---sambo