Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 13:55:53 -0800 From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ultra 5 workstation announcement Message-ID: <199801272155.NAA05021@feral.com>
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>From owner-freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Tue Jan 27 05:10:07 1998 >In list.freebsd-sparc Wes Peters wrote: > > > I agree with Greg's thought, if you want SCSI, add a SCSI controller. I > > > don't think Sun is positioning the Ultra 5 for I/O intensive applications. > > > > 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. > >Regards > Oliver Fromme 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.
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