[geeks] Sun T5240 RAID card

[John Fugedy]

It’s good to know there are folks out there that are great resources for our old Sun servers.  
I’m restoring an old Sun SPARCserver 670MP with very little documentation! Anyone have any?
Thanks,
John Fugedy 

Sent from my iPhone

> On May 7, 2024, at 06:59, John-Paul Stewart via geeks <geeks at sunhelp.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On 2024-05-06 8:15 p.m., Madeline Autumn-Rose via geeks wrote:
>> I picked up a T5240 a couple days ago from a recycler dirt cheap.
>> During testing it endlessly prints "waiting for aac controller to start"
>> and never makes it to an ok prompt and doesn't seem to ever succeed.
>> Looks like an internal SAS card is in an expansion slot with a battery
>> so I am betting that's the relevant card. Anyone know the part number
>> for that, or know of a potential fix for this issue?
>> Alternatively...does a non-RAID internal SAS card exist that could be
>> booted from on this machine? JBOD mode for the front slots would be ideal.
> 
> The internal RAID controller is part 375-3536 which is a re-badged
> Adaptec ASR-5805.  I don't know if any Adaptec would work or if there is
> specific Sun/Oracle firmware on the Sun part number.
> 
> There is also the option of using part 375-3487, which is a re-badged
> LSI SAS3801E SAS JBOD controller.
> 
> However, neither of those are necessary.  The T5240 has an LSI 1068E SAS
> controller on the motherboard with two SAS connectors (supporting 4
> drives each) between the memory DIMM slots.  You can route SAS cables
> from the drive backplane to them (which is the default configuration
> without a RAID card) and be good to go.
> 
> Everything you might need to know about the T5240 can be found here:
> 
> https://dogemicrosystems.ca/pub/Sun/System_Handbook/Sun_syshbk_V3.4/Systems/SE_T5240/SE_T5240.html
> 
> _______________________________________________
> GEEKS:  http://sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/geeks_sunhelp.org