[rescue] Solaris drivers for Sun FDDI/S SAS SBus cards

[Michael Schiller]

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On Friday, May 23, 2003, at 08:50 AM, Jona Sperty wrote:

> 501-2687 does indeed operate under Solaris 8 & 9.
>
> The Solaris 8 Supplement includes FDDI 3.0 software. I'm not sure  
> where it is in Solaris 9.
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> I could get hold of the following cards:
>
> a) (2) 501-1732 - FDDI/S SAS 1.0/2.0
> b) (2) 501-2687 - FDDI/S SAS 3.0
>
> Both would come w/o the needed Sun FDDI drivers packages.
>
> a) would need the FDDI 2.0 package and would be limited to Solaris
> older than 2.5.

while it's not officially supported I have used the FDDI 2.0 package  
with the 501-1732 card under Solaris 8 without any problems.

> b) would need the FDDI 3.0/4.0/5.0 package.
>
> I'd be interested to know if the newer cards (b) could be operated
> under newer Solaris versions, as e.g. 8.0.

Yes, they can. With Solaris 9 there's a work-around that you have to  
add to the /etc/system file, but I don't recall what it is off hand.

>
- -Mike
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