Re: SUN Ultra 5 HDD compatibility

[Michael <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost>]

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Hello,

On Jan 28, 2010, at 3:52 PM, Gert Doering wrote:

> on port-sparc64, Michael wrote:
>
> > >    m> IIRC the U5/U10 doesn't like 3.3v only PCI cards. Neither do
> > >    m> older Macs for example.
> > >
> > > doesn't make sense.  There must be a longer story about what's  
> > > really
> > > going on.
>
> > He said it worked in an U30 which - unlike U5/U10 - has a 3.3v slot.
>
> U60, but this has a 3.3V slot as well.  OTOH I'm fairly sure I tried a
> slot that looked "like the one on the U5" (which would make it one
> of the 3 5V-slots).

They're all 64bit slots ( vs. 32bit in the U5 ) - the 3.3v slot should  
be the one closest to the UPA slots.

> *read e-mail archives*
>
> OK, that's what I wrote about this card in the U60, about a year  
> ago :-)
>
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> Looking at Wikipedia and at my machines, both machines have 5V PCI  
> slots
> (the U60 has 3.3V and 5V slots, but the SATA card is in one of the 5V
> slots - and of course the U60 has 64bit, but that shouldn't matter  
> for a
> 32 bit-only card).
> ------------- quote ------------
>
> so indeed, I made sure it's in a 5V slot, so *that* was not the reason
> why it didn't work in the U5 (and in the 440BX-based Pentium-III PC).

Damn, there goes that theory. So we're left with PCI 2.0 vs. 2.2 or  
sabre vs. psycho or something :/

have fun
Michael

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