Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 09:36:21 -0800 From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ultra 5 workstation announcement Message-ID: <199801281736.JAA06785@feral.com>
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>From owner-freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Wed Jan 28 03:13:18 1998 > >Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> wrote in list.freebsd-sparc: > > > > Yeah, NCR 875 boards are pretty cheap these days ($140). > > > > > >Can you boot an Ultra-5 from one of those? You need a SCSI > > >adapter with OpenBoot ROM support, otherwise you won't be > > >able to boot the beast. An el-cheapo NCR certainly won't do. > > > > Not quite true. The glm hba driver and random otehr NCR boards > > do work on the PCI SCSI cards. If you have problems, I can > > also go yell at the Sun driver writer. > >I'm not talking about OS support here. You absolutely have to >have OpenBoot support in order to be able to boot. If you plug >in an NCR or Adaptec without OpenBoot PROM, then you cannot >boot from it. > >Regards > Oliver Fromme First of all, Sun isn't supporting the Adaptec driver (neither in prom nor otherwise). I'll reconfirm on my quark back at Sun when I next go in, but that may not be entirely true about OBP on a card- I have a couple NCR cards I'll try.
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