[SunRescue] SCSI in an ultra 5

[Daniel Debow Southwick]

Ok. I guess I'll build a ( shudder ) x86 unix box with that ( shudders
again ) adaptec card and do back ups over the network.

Thanks for all the great help. 

Dan
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On Tue, 2 May 2000, Bill Bradford wrote:

> On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 02:22:11PM -0400, Daniel Debow Southwick wrote:
> > Alrighty then sorry to waste the bandwidth on this. As I stated the
> > symbios card is for around 50 dollars. bill mentioned a compatiblity issue
> > with those. here is the specs on the one I'm going to buy:
> > SYM 8251S Ultra Wide SCSI
> > 20Mbps, 32bit PCI,
> > Original Symbios, Sun, Linux, NT, win98, Dos
> > Symbios 53C825 Chipset
> > BusMaster 
> > 50 & 68 pin Wide 
> > Work with all OS "Linux included"
> > Is this the one to avoid?
> > Dan
> 
> YES, avoid that one; I have one sitting in my desk now because it wont
> work with the U5/10.  The ONLY one that works with the U5/U10 (that I
> know of so far) is the Symbios 8751sp (NOT the 8251S).
> 
> If you install the 8251S in a U5/U10, you'll be able to do "probe-scsi-all"
> from OpenBoot, but the glm0 will not attach or work with the card; its
> simply not compatible with Solaris/SPARC.  Works under Solaris x86 just
> fine, but thats a different matter.
> 
> Bill
> 
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