[rescue] U30--thanks

Eric Dittman dittman at dittman.net
Tue Aug 6 22:57:51 CDT 2002


> > > 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.

Except for one, all of them are non-Sun.
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Eric Dittman
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