[1381] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Which SCSI card for U5/U10
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan J. Williams)
Thu Jul 23 09:33:53 1998
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 09:33:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Nathan J. Williams" <nathanw@MIT.EDU>
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
Cc: release-team@MIT.EDU, miki@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[1379] in Release_7.7_team"
>My rationale for proposing to buy the Adaptec is: Sun says it works,
>and uses it internally. It is the least expensive card. Let's take
>advantage of the PC nature of the Ultra, and offer the LOW cost option
>as the Tested, Supported, SCSI support for the Ultra-5 and Ultra-10.
One thing to consider is whether the driver for the card is
normally part of Solaris 2.6, or whether it requires adding a driver
to the system. I'm sure this group appreciates the annoyances to
individual machine maintainers of having to patch their OS beyond what
Athena provides.
Some poking around on an Athena Sun running 8.2 finds no
Adaptec drivers in the kernel area, and the man pages confirm that all
of the documented base Adaptec drivers are for Solaris/x86. The
"SunSwift PCI 1.0" X1032A, in contrast, is supported out-of-the-box in
our current configuration by the isp(7d) and hme(7d) drivers.
It also seems to me that it would be a good idea to get more
than one card so that you can do some comparison testing, and have a
better reason to recommend it than "It works okay" (The X6540 part,
though, seems to be non-wide Ultra SCSI, which is a little silly for a
new system).
- Nathan
