SUMMARY: SCSI on 4/280 ?

From: whb@hoh-2.att.com
Date: Fri Jun 05 1992 - 17:53:23 CDT


The results are in, and much to *nobody's* surprise:
        Sun #501-1217 SCSI-3 board, aka Option 598A

is now and has been supported by Sun.

HOWEVER: It's NOT supported for all devices, particularly the
interesting ones: 8mm tapes and CD-ROMs. Users results vary.

My thanks to all the respondants, with the following modifiers:
- Steve Swaney mentioned Box Hill Systems
- Bob Reardon and Ned Danieley mentioned Falcon Systems
- Mark Wallen mentioned Apunix
- Barry Shein mentioned various 3rd-party sources
- Phil Ritzenthaler mentioned Pinnacle Data Systems
- Arie Bikker mentioned Interphase

Get with the program, folks; my original message was quite specific:
>Is there another maker of SCSI boards for a 4/280 which will NOT
>I repeat NOT require the use of their own driver?

An apparent exception is the board from Falcon, which Ned says
"works just great" with the GENERIC kernel. Still: read and
understand before responding, okay? For instance, I had already
talked to Box Hill, so I know that they require their own driver.

My favorite suggestion was from Marcel Bernards (just how do I
get a SCREAMNet connection to the Netherlands, Marcel?):
>So take hold of your sales rep's tie and slowly tighten it till he sells you
>an official Sun supplied VME SCSI(1) interface. :-)

Wilson H. Bent, Jr. whb@hoh-2.ATT.COM
AT&T - Bell Laboratories HOH L-274A
Holmdel, NJ 07733 (908) 888-7129

        Thanks to the respondants, in order of receipt:
nassio@cfassp8.harvard.edu (George Nassiopoulos P-353 495-7181)
fons@nat.vu.nl (Fons Ullings)
mek@dazixco.ingr.com (Mark Ketter)
allegra!mp (Mark Plotnick)
a Sun engineer who asked to remain anonymous
dan@breeze.bellcore.com (Daniel Strick)
ivan@fac.anu.edu.au (Ivan Dean)
steve@buick
doug@perry.berkeley.edu (Doug Neuhauser)
brw@hertz.njit.edu (Brian White)
turtle@sciences.sdsu.edu (Andrew Scherpbier)
reardon@sws.SINet.SLB.COM (Bob Reardon Maildrop 3F - x4794)
shj@ultra.com (Steve Jay {Ultra Unix SW Mgr})
wallen@cogsci.UCSD.EDU (Mark R. Wallen)
Postmaster <Piete.Brooks@cl.cam.ac.uk>
bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
bernards@ECN.NL (Marcel Bernards)
Maarten.vanWijk@kub.nl (Maarten van Wijk)
fergus@lincoln.gpsemi.com (Fergus McMenemie LDC ext 2210)
Daniel@europarc.xerox.com
kuhn@math.harvard.edu (Robert M. Kuhn)
kalli!glenn@fourx.Aus.Sun.COM (Glenn Satchell)
tim@otis.hssc.scarolina.edu (Tim White)
phil@cgrg.ohio-state.edu (Phil Ritzenthaler)
ndd@bal1.mc.duke.edu (Ned Danieley)
"Bill Gray" <bill@utkux1.utk.edu>
snowhit!rmk (Richard Kurtz (816)995-3204 rmk@snowhit.att.com)
stiles@no2sun.cray.com (John Stiles)
sitongia@ozzel.hao.ucar.edu (HAO Computer System Managment Group)
gpr@proteon.com (Gary Richardson)
Mike Raffety <miker@sbcoc.com>
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@stout.atd.ucar.EDU>
hydres!paul
Arie Bikker <aribi@geo.vu.nl>



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