Yiannis <jandersunstar@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would like to yes, but I can live without it. I mainly want to avoid
> the horrid performance of the IDE drives. At the moment
> I have an Adaptec AHA-2940U2W in, with a drive, but Solaris 10 refuses
> to detect it during installation. probe-scsi does the same
> in openboot, however linux detects the card and drive quite happily...

The LSI/Symbios cards used to be the best bets. You could often find
them with openfirmware drivers for boot, and they were a chipset with an
installed driver in Solaris.

I don't recall Adaptec having any Sparc driver support.

See also:
<http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.sun.hardware/browse_thread/thread/bf5482dec8a3c292>

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