Sun Microsystems Blade 1500 - TABLE 16-1 Conditions for Installing Optional PCI Cards

16-2 Sun Blade 1500 Service, Diagnostics, and Troubleshooting Manual • December 2004
Sun Microsystems provides many optional PCI cards that are supported by the Sun
Blade 1500 workstation.
TABLE 16-1 lists the supported cards and conditions to their
installation and use.
TABLE 16-1 Conditions for Installing Optional PCI Cards
Card Type Product Conditions for Installation
Graphics
accelerators
Sun XVR-600
Sun XVR-100
Sun XVR-1200
There are no special conditions for basic installation.
To configure for 24-bit color depth:
1. Create this directory:
% mkdir /etc/dt/config
2. Copy the Xservers file
% cp /usr/dt/config/Xservers /etc/dt/config
3. Edit /etc/dt/config/Xservers to have this line:
:0 Local local_uid@console root /usr/openwin/bin/Xsun
4. Edit /etc/dt/config/Xservers to have the following
line respective of the graphics accelerator:
:0 -nobanner -dev /dev/fbs/jfb0 defdepth 24 (XVR-600)
:0 -nobanner -dev /dev/fbs/pfb0 defdepth 24 (XVR-100)
:0 -nobanner -dev /dev/fbs/jfb0 defdepth 24 (XVR-1200)
5. Save the file.
6. Log out then log in again.
SCSI host adapters Sun StorEdge™ PCI
Dual Ultra3 SCSI
Adapter
Install the following packages:
• SUNWqus
• SUNWqusu
• SUNWqusux
• SUNWqusx
Install the following qpatches:
• Q905806
• Q905807
Dual-Channel
Differential Ultra/Wide
SCSI PCI adapter
Dual-Channel Single
Ended Ultra/Wide SCSI
PCI adapter
Single-Ended
Ultra/Wide SCSI PCI
adapter
These devices have no Fcode, so they are not recognized by
the OpenBoot PROM and cannot be used as bootable host
adapters for hard drives or removable media drives. These
devices are not supported or reported by the probe-scsi
command.
Dual FastEthernet and
Dual SCSI PCI Adapter
SunSwift™ PCI
When used with Sun StorEdge Multipacks containing
Fujitsu drives having MAA/MAB series identifiers,
read/write errors might occur.
The SunSwift PCI card might not fit properly upon first
insertion into the PCI slot. Recheck installation before
powering on.