Hi all,

I hope someone can give me a hint to solve my prob as googling around
doesn't show up anything usable.

At home up to now I used a UltraSparc Station 1 which died recently.
Now I purchased a second hand Sun 400MHz Ultra 5 Workstation (A21).

As I want to use my SCSI Equipment (HDD / CD-ROM / Streamer) I found
out, that there is no S-Bus integrated but PCI Slots instead.
So I need a PCI SCSI Adapter to connect my SCSI Equipment.

Now my questions:
What Adapter can I use?
Would an ordinary Adaptec AHA 2940 PCI SCSI Card work or do I have to
purchase original Sun equipment?
At the corresponding Sun page
http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/U5/U5.html
I found 2 SCSI Adapter Numbers for the Single-Ended Ultra/Wide
SCSI/FastEthernet (SunSwift PCI):
501-2741 and 501-5656
The price for one of those original SUN Cards is about 299$ which is
more than I paid for the whole Ultra 5 Workstation!!

Does anybody know where to get a second hand card if the 2940 doesn't
work / fit?

Is it possible to boot directly from the external SCSI HD attached if
I throw away the internal IDE HDD (which is to small and very loud)?

Hopefully awaiting your answers,

Axel