According to Yiannis <jandersunstar@gmail.com>:
> On 19 Sep, 22:26, Ian Collins <ian-n...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Darren Dunham wrote:
> > > Yiannis <jandersuns...@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.
> >
> > That's what I use for (non-boot) drives and they work well.
> >
> > --
> > Ian Collins.
>
> That's right but I can only seem to find HVD ones on eBay :-S

They (the LVD ones) show up from time to time, but tend to be
rather expensive most of the time.

I found mine at a hamfest for about $35.00 IIRC. (Sorry, I
can't remember the number -- it is too new to be in my FEH (Field
Engineer's Handbook).

But -- can't you use a SE one instead? Almost all LVD drives
will talk to a SE controller and vice versa -- just with the restriction
that if you have a SE device or controller on the bus, it will talk to
*everything* as SE instead of LVD. Since you want to talk to a drive
inside your computer (IIRC), the length of the cable certainly does not
call for LVD.

The only LVD device which I know of which will not work properly
on a SE bus is the Exabyte Mammoth-2 tape drive. If the drive says LVD,
it *needs* LVD. Even the jukebox which it was in (an EXB-430) would
communicate nicely with a SE controller, but the drives would not.

Enjoy,
DoN.
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