Re: Sun QLogic SCSI HBA issues

[Christian Rodriguez <christian.rodriguez.95%gmx.de@localhost>]

Funny you mention those Symbios cards; I was just looking at them the 
other day after some research. I did actually end up getting a Symbios 
53c875J based SCSI card and we'll see how well it works. When I was 
initially looking into getting a SCSI card for this machine I wanted 
something that was at least SCSI Ultra-3 capable (as to provide adequate 
bandwidth to my Cheetah 15K.5 HDD) but I guess it doesn't really matter 
as this PCI bus is pretty saturated as is with an XVR-100 and USB 
2.0/firewire combo card.


As to posting my dmesg.boot log, you'll have to pardon my unfamiliarity 
with *nix; but, I'm not sure how I could get a hold of that seeing as I 
can't fully boot into the system.


I would also like to make a minor correction, the card utilizes two 
QLA10160 chips not QLA10162s.


Side question here.

What is the state of binary packages for SPARC64? I'm looking into 
adding a desktop environment (LXQt, Xfce, etc.) but on OpenBSD a lot of 
dependencies were not available as binaries which meant a lot of 
compiling from source which is way too slow on this machine.


On 2019-01-07 16:22, Michael wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Sat, 05 Jan 2019 19:43:24 +0900
> Christian Rodriguez <christian.rodriguez.95%gmx.de@localhost> wrote:
>
> > If I need a new HBA, do the PowerPC Mac SCSI cards work with OBP?
> Not likely, the Mac-ROMs I have seen on those all contain powerpc code
> hidden below a thin layer of FORTH. I do not claim to know all ( or
> even most ) of those, so...
>
> If you happen to have a symbios logic UW-SCSI controller ( supported by
> the esiop(4) driver ) it will likely Just Work(tm) regardless of what's
> in the card's ROM - the U5 and U10 have drivers for those in their own
> ROMs.
>
> have fun
> Michael

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