Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 12:10:30 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ultra 5 workstation announcement Message-ID: <199801281110.MAA12295@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
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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 -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18-61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de)
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