Installing The Host Adapter; Overview - Sun Microsystems Single-Ended Installation Manual

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C H A P T E R

Installing the Host Adapter

This chapter describes the PCI single-ended and differential dual-channel UltraSCSI
host adapter cards and explains how to install them into your system. Before you
begin, have your system documentation available for reference. You will need to
perform system administration procedures to halt and boot your system.
Note – If you are unfamiliar with UltraSCSI configuration guidelines, read
Appendix A, "Understanding UltraSCSI," before performing the procedures in this
chapter.

Overview

The single-ended and differential host adapters are UltraSCSI devices that enable
you to increase the available number of SCSI ports for adding external devices.
The host adapters are designed to be installed in SPARC™ systems running at least
Solaris 2.5.1 Hardware:4/97 operating system.
The host adapters support up to 15 targets on each SCSI bus. For details, see
Appendix A, "Understanding UltraSCSI."
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