[rescue] U30--thanks

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 10:35:18PM -0500, Eric Dittman wrote:
> > OK.  PCI FDDI adapters will run you from $1 (for some sun PCI cards
> > that are only 32bit, and close on ebay in an hour with no bids so
> > far), to $35 for DEC DEFPA cards (the most widely supported,
> > solaris/sparc support unknown,  but definately good for just about any
> > other machine you might have), to what ever the syskonect cards cost.
> > I see an official sun one for $200, but I believe the non official
> > ones are far cheap, like sub $100.  Dave could give you the details.
> > Frankly, other than coolness, I'm not sure that 64/66 PCI gets you
> > anything here, other than perhaps lightening the load on the rest of
> > the bus somehow.
> 
> I've seen those PCI FDDI cards on eBay, but the information I've
> found doesn't say whether they'd work with Solaris 8/9 or not.

I wouldn't have imagined that Sun badge PCI FDDI cards might not work
on Solaris 8 or 9.  But I guess anything is possible.
 
-- 
Joshua D. Boyd