Hi Bob, On 11/10/2005, at 7:29 AM, Bob Ababurko wrote:
in reading the thread about running pf on an ultra 5, I saw that people were running fxp NICs in them. I started thinking about the possibility of running a Mylex Acceleraid 250 or any other RAID controller that OpenBSD supports in an Ultra5.
http://www.openbsd.org/sparc64.html I asked this a few years ago and the most interesting answer I got was to use a supported SCSI card and an external SCSI cage which performs the RAID and setup itself.
I have been caught up in thinking that these nics and RAID controllers needed to be run in i386 hardware. So I just tested out my realtek NICs, and they work in the sparc64, what about RAID controllers that I have always associated with PC's?
You may find some SCSI cards which come installed in Sun machines actually have the x86 centric built in firmware utilities, which you should find work if you plug them into an x86 PC. Seems they are just re-badged OEM boards. I got an LSI SCSI controller in the U5 I got off Ebay (which was a nice bonus because it was not listed as having it), which has the firmware setup program you expect when using cards in x86 PC's. Shane J Pearson
