WTB: Sun3 SCSI card

[Jules Richardson]

On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 12:42 -0400, der Mouse wrote:
> > I need a SCSI card for my Sun 3/180.  Is there anyone that can help
> > me?  I've got a few $$ I could spend towards it, but I'm not willing
> > to pay insane amounts of cash. ;)
> 
> Do you happen to know whether they're compatible with SCSI cards from
> other VME-based Suns?  I've got a -4/470 and the cards (but not the
> chassis) from another -4/470, and two, I think, -3/260s.  Surely in
> there there's at least one SCSI card I can liberate, but I don't want
> to send you a card only to find it doesn't work in your -3/180.

I'm pretty sure the 4/470 has the SCSI controller integrated on the CPU
board, despite being VME. I have a feeling that some of the Sun3 line
are like this too - and then other Sun3's (like the 3/50, 3/60) weren't
ever designed to support a disk controller; they were simply diskless
workstations.

We're actually in the same position - I've got a feeling it's a 3/150
that we have which has a CPU card, extra memory card, but no disk
controller whatsoever. Lack of disk controller seems pretty common on
this class of Sun, yet if they were supposed to be faster diskless
workstations I'm not sure why Sun went to the expense of giving them a
VME backplane. Maybe they were aimed more at process control where
storage either wasn't needed or was expected to be remote?

cheers

Jules