On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Rick Kelly wrote:

>Geoff Blake said:
>
>>> Apart from the fact that U5s have no SCSI ...
>
>I put a SymBIOS SCSI card in my U5 and it sees the external 18gig fine.
>Also, the PROM can see the external disk and will be able to boot from a
>SCSI drive. 
>
 <snip>
>
>There are various SymBIOS and LSI Logic cards that should work quite
>well.
>

Do U5/U10/blade have OpenFirmware support for generic 53x8xx based cards? 
I notice that the 375-0005 SCSI card from SUN has no fcode ROM on board. 
Surely SUN wouldn't sell a SCSI card that couldn't be booted from?

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