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Old 04-15-2008, 09:26 PM
Dennis Grevenstein
 
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Default Re: Sun Ultra 10 PCI SCSI Card?

In comp.sys.sun.hardware Justin Goldberg <justgold79@gmail.com> wrote:
> Can I put a any old pci scsi card into a sun ultra 10 workstation as
> long as my os has drivers? (I will install bsd or linux on it)
>
> What's your experience with scsi on it?


A card with a Symbios Logic 875 or 876 should work.
Sun has also used newer Symbios SCSI chips in their
products, but I don't know if you can boot from those
SCSI cards in an Ultra 10, which is quite old now.
Those cards also work with Solaris.

You can put in just about any SCSI card if you don't
want to boot from it. A possible setup for Linux might
be putting a small /boot on the IDE disk and the rest
of the system on a SCSI disk.
Putting SCSI in an U5 or U10 is generally a good idea.

Dennis

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