Subject: Re: How to hang differential scsi drive tray off single ended sun sbe card?
To: None <Robertdkeys@aol.com>
From: Kurt J. Lidl <lidl@pix.net>
List: port-sparc
Date: 08/05/2003 22:06:09
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 09:03:18PM -0400, Robertdkeys@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 8/5/03 8:50:05 PM Eastern Daylight Time, woods@weird.com
> writes:
>
> <<
> DEC made adapters that went from differential to SE so that you could
> hang a bunch of SE disks in a (bunch of) StorageWorks tray(s) off the
> end of a long cable. I don't know if thoose converters are fully
> bi-directional and transparent or not though.
>
> I think you'd be better off looking for a differential host adapter....
> -- >>
>
> I don't think there is any opensource software that runs the one
> sun differential adapter that I am aware of.
The ISP driver probably will run on a UD/WIS controller from Sun.
Certainly the driver in BSD/OS on the SPARC ran both the single and
differential versions of the controller.
-Kurt