According to Yiannis <jandersunstar@gmail.com>:
> On 25 Sep, 07:03, dnich...@d-and-d.com (DoN. Nichols) wrote:
> > According to Yiannis <jandersuns...@gmail.com>:
> > > 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.

[ ... ]

> If this works then this is what I will do can you suggest any
> particulars cards for this?

Well ... the most common SE card for Suns (and the one which I
use for SE SCSI) is marked 375-0005 by Sun, and is the Symbios SYM22801.
There is a version marked 375-0013 which has a FCode ROM on it for use
with systems which don't already know about it -- but I've never needed
them with my Ultra-60 systems. the 375-0005 can usually be found by a
search on eBay -- and most of the time you can find quite reasonable
final prices.

It is a dual SCSI card, with VHDCI 68-pin connectors for both
controllers on the card bracket to feed to the outside, and both
50-pin IDC and HD68-pin internal for each controller. There are quad
DIP switches for each, with switch element 1 enabling the 50-pin SCSI,
switch element 2 enabling the internal 68-pin connector, switch element
three labeled "upper address bits" (I guess making the 50-pin connector
think that it is talking to SCSI-IDs 8-15 instead of 0-7. And switch
element 4 enables the external 68-pin VHDCI.

So -- you could enable one for the internal 68-pin for your
internal drives and still have the other to connect to to external drives
if you wish to add them later.

Note that it should go in a 33 MHz PCI slot, not a 66 MHz one if
your computer has one. (Not likely in the Ultra-10. :-)

Good Luck,
DoN.
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