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Old 01-16-2008, 12:58 PM
Jambo
 
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Default How to find out the exact type/module for the SCSI card

I have a Sun Blade 100 with SCSI controller connected to a tape drive.
I need to buy another SCSI controller with exactly the same type/model
etc. The question is how to obtain the detail SCSI controller
information without opening the box.

I have tried sysdef, prtconf, dmesg, none of them give me the required
information. I have tried '/usr/platform/sun4u/sbin/prtdiag -v'. It
give me some useful information as below.


0 pci 33 4 SUNW,isptwo-pci1077,1020 (scsi)
QLGC,ISP1040B


So I can see that the SCSI controller use 'QLGC,ISP1040B'. It still
can't provide detail information about the type/model for the SCSI
card and also information like Single Ended or Differential etc.

Can anyon tell me how to find out the exact manufacture type/module
for the SCSI controller inside the box? Thanks..
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Old 01-16-2008, 12:59 PM
Mike
 
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Default Re: How to find out the exact type/module for the SCSI card

My educated guess is that you have a SunSwift PCI card. Option X1032A
or 501-5656 or 501-2741. Single-ended Ultra/Wide SCSI/FastEthernet
(SunSwift PCI)

I first went to the available SCSI controllers for the Blade 100:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub...nent.scsi.html

The diagrams of the SunSwift cards show a ISP1040 chip on this card.
Further research indicated that the isptwo driver always represents a
QLogic card/controller.

You could also do a show-devs from the ok prompt and see if you have a
network card and scsi card show up at the same PCI position. Here is
an example:
/pci@1f,2000/pci@2/SUNW,isptwo@4
/pci@1f,2000/pci@2/SUNW,hme@0,1

If physical inspection is possible; I would recommend viewing the
ports on the card and then going to the SunSolve link I pasted above
for quickest identification.

I hope this helps.


jshubo@yahoo.com (Jambo) wrote in message news:<cd48a5b6.0408021904.272ff440@posting.google. com>...
> I have a Sun Blade 100 with SCSI controller connected to a tape drive.
> I need to buy another SCSI controller with exactly the same type/model
> etc. The question is how to obtain the detail SCSI controller
> information without opening the box.
>
> I have tried sysdef, prtconf, dmesg, none of them give me the required
> information. I have tried '/usr/platform/sun4u/sbin/prtdiag -v'. It
> give me some useful information as below.
>
>
> 0 pci 33 4 SUNW,isptwo-pci1077,1020 (scsi)
> QLGC,ISP1040B
>
>
> So I can see that the SCSI controller use 'QLGC,ISP1040B'. It still
> can't provide detail information about the type/model for the SCSI
> card and also information like Single Ended or Differential etc.
>
> Can anyon tell me how to find out the exact manufacture type/module
> for the SCSI controller inside the box? Thanks..

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