Chapter 2 Supported Sun Hardware

Supported Platforms

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Not all platforms and peripheral devices listed in this chapter are compatible. Contact your authorized Sun support provider for support information.

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• SPARCclassic(TM)

• SPARCstation SLC(TM)

• SPARCstation ELC(TM)

• SPARCstation LX

• SPARCstation IPC(TM)

• SPARCstation IPX(TM)

• SPARCstation 1

• SPARCstation 1+

• SPARCstation 2

• SPARCstation 4

• SPARCstation 5

• SPARCstation 5 Model 170

• SPARCstation 10

• SPARCstation 10SX

• SPARCstation 20

• SPARCstation 20 Model HS11, HS12, HS14, HS21, HS22, 151, and 152

• SPARCstation Voyager(TM)

• Ultra 1 Model 140, 170

• Ultra 1 Creator Model 140E, 170E, 200E

• Ultra 1 Creator3D Model 140E, 170E, 200E

• Sun Enterprise 1 Model 140, 170, 170E

• Ultra 2 Creator Model 1170, 2170, 1200, 2200, 1300, 2300

• Ultra 2 Creator3D Model 1170, 2170, 1200, 2200

• Ultra 5

• Ultra 10

• Ultra 30

• Ultra 60

• Ultra 450

• Sun Enterprise 2 Model 1170, 2170, 1200, 2200, 1300, 2300

• Sun Enterprise 150

• Sun Enterprise 250

• Sun Enterprise 450

• Sun Enterprise 3000

• Sun Enterprise 4000

• Sun Enterprise 5000

• Sun Enterprise 6000

• Sun Enterprise 3500

• Sun Enterprise 4500

• Sun Enterprise 5500

• Sun Enterprise 6500

• Sun Enterprise 10000

• SPARCserver 1000 and 1000E

• SPARCcenter 2000 and 2000E

Supported Storage Peripherals

The following peripherals are supported:

• SPARCstorage Array

• Sun StorEdge A5000

• Sun StorEdge D1000/A1000

SCSI Disks

Sun StorEdge UniPack

• 1.05-Gbyte

• 1.05-Gbyte Fast/Wide

• 2.1-Gbyte

• 2.1-Gbyte Fast/Wide

• 4.2-Gbyte Fast/Wide

• 9-Gbyte Ultra

• 18-Gbyte Ultra

Sun StorEdge MultiPack

• 2.1-Gbyte (2 x 1.05-Gbyte)

• 4.2-Gbyte (2 x 2.1-Gbyte Fast SCSI-2)

• 4.2-Gbyte (4 x 1.05-Gbyte)

• 4.2-Gbyte (2 x 2.1-Gbyte 7200 rpm)

• 8.4-Gbyte (4 x 2.1-Gbyte Fast SCSI-2)

• 8.4-Gbyte (2 x 4.2-Gbyte 5400 rpm)

• 8.4-Gbyte (4 x 2.1-Gbyte 7200 rpm)

• 8.4-Gbyte (2 x 4.2-Gbyte)

• 9-Gbyte (2 x 9-Gbyte 7200 rpm Ultra)

• 9-Gbyte (4 x 9-Gbyte 7200 rpm Ultra)

• 9-Gbyte (6 x 9-Gbyte Ultra)

• 16.8-Gbyte (4 x 4.2-Gbyte)

• 16.8-Gbyte (4 x 4.2-Gbyte 5400 rpm)

• 18-Gbyte (2 x 9-Gbyte)

• 36-Gbyte (2 x 18-Gbyte)

• 36-Gbyte (4 x 9-Gbyte)

• 54-Gbyte (6 x 9-Gbyte)

• 72-Gbyte (4 x 18-Gbyte)

• 108-Gbyte (6 x 18-Gbyte)

Desktop Storage Pack (3.5-inch)

• 104-Mbyte

• 207-Mbyte

• 207-Mbyte Low profile (LP)

• 424-Mbyte

• 535-Mbyte (LP)

• 1.05-Gbyte

• 1.05-Gbyte (LP)

• 2.1-Gbyte

• 4.2-Gbyte

External Storage Module/External Expansion Module (5.25-inch)

• 327-Mbyte

• 669-Mbyte

Multi-Disk Pack (3.5-inch)

• 4.2-Gbyte (4 x 1.05-Gbyte)

• 4.2-Gbyte (2 x 2.1-Gbyte)

• 8.4-Gbyte (4 x 2.1-Gbyte)

• 8.4-Gbyte (2 x 4.2-Gbyte)

• 16.8-Gbyte (4 x 4.2-Gbyte

Desktop Storage Module

• 16.8-Gbyte (4 x 4.2-Gbyte 5.25-inch)

• 1.3-Gbyte (5.25-inch)

Differential SCSI Disk Tray (5.25-inch)

• 2.1-Gbyte

• 2.9-Gbyte

• 9.0-Gbyte

Differential SCSI Expansion Pedestal (5.25-inch)

• 2.1-Gbyte

SCSI Disk Cards (3.5-inch)

• 2.1-Gbyte (4 x 535-Mbyte, narrow)

• 4.2-Gbyte (4 x 1.05-Gbyte, wide)

• 8.4-Gbyte (4 x 2.1-Gbyte, wide)

Enterprise Disk Cards

• 4.2-Gbyte (2 x 2.1-Gbyte)

• 8.4-Gbyte (2 x 4.2-Gbyte)

CD Drives

• SunCD(TM)^TM drive

• SunCD Plus(TM)^TM drive

• SunCD 2Plus(TM)^TM drive

• SunCD 4 drive

• Sun StorEdge CD12 drive

• SunCD 16 drive

• SunCD 24 drive

• SunCD 32 drive

SCSI Tape Drives

• 60-Mbyte 1/4 inch QIC Sun3 Mass Storage subsystem

• 150-Mbyte 1/4 inch QIC Desktop Backup Pack and External Storage Module

• 2.5-Gbyte 1/4-inch QIC Sun StorEdge UniPack

• 1/2-inch Front Load (800/1600/6250 bpi) Tape

• 5-Gbyte 4mm Tape Desktop Backup Pack and Sun StorEdge UniPack

• 20-Gbyte 4mm Tape Auto-Loader Desktop Backup Module

• 2.3-Gbyte 8mm Desktop Backup Pack and External Storage Module

• 5.0-Gbyte 8mm Desktop Backup Pack

• 10-Gbyte 8mm Desktop Backup Pack

• 14-Gbyte 8mm Desktop Backup Pack and Sun StorEdge UniPack

• Multi-Tape Tray and Dragon Media Tray

• 20-Gbyte 4mm tape autoloader

• 5.0-Gbyte 8mm

• 10-Gbyte 8mm

• 14-Gbyte 8mm

• Internal

• 4-Gbyte 4mm DDS2 tape drive

• 4-Gbyte 4mm DDS2CR tape drive

• 4-Gbyte DDS3 tape drive

• 7-Gbyte 8mm 8505XL tape drive

• 7-Gbyte 8mm 8705DX tape drive

• SPARCstorage Library (up to two 14-Gbyte tape drives with 10 magazine cartridges and a robotic mechanism to select cartridges) (SCSI)

Diskette Drives

• 3.5-inch dual density diskette drive

• 3.5-inch tri-density diskette drive

• 3.5-inch tri-density manual eject diskette drive

Expansion Subsystems

• SBus Expansion Subsystem/Chassis (SES/C)

• SBus Expansion Subsystem/Board (SES/B)

Controllers

Sun StorEdge SCSI Host Adapters

• Sun SCSI Host Adapter (SSHA)

• SBus SCSI Buffered Ethernet (SBE/S)

• SBus Fast SCSI Buffered Ethernet (FSBE/S)

• SBus Single-ended Fast/Wide Intelligent SCSI-2 (SWIS/S)

• SBus Single-ended Fast/Wide SCSI-2 (SunSwift)

• SBus Differential Fast/Wide Intelligent SCSI-2 (DWIS/S)

• SBus Differential SCSI Buffered Ethernet (DSBE/S)

PCI Host Adapters

• PCI Single-ended Fast/Wide SCSI-2 (SunSwift/PCI)

• Dual Differential UltraSCSI (UD2S)

• Dual Single-ended UltraSCSI (US2S)

Fibre Channel Host Adapters

• FC/S

• FC-OM (FC/S only)

• FC100/S

• GBIC (FC100/S only)

PCMCIA

The PCMCIA interfaces are provided with the following products:

• SPARCstation Voyager (uses STP4020 PCMCIA controller chip)

• PCMCIA Interface/SBus (uses STP4020 PCMCIA controller chip)

The supported PC cards are:

• Serial RS-232 communication cards

• Data and fax modem cards

• SRAM, DRAM, MROM memory cards

Graphics Accelerators

The following frame buffers are supported:

Frame Buffer Support Matrix

Table 2-1 Supported Frame Buffers

Product Name	Common Name	Device Driver X	Bus Architecture
n/a	CG3	/dev/fbs/cgthreeX	SBus
GX	CG6	/dev/fbs/cgsixX	SBus
GXplus	CG6	/dev/fbs/cgsixX	SBus
TGX	TurboGX	/dev/fbs/cgsixX	SBus
TGX4	TurboGX+	/dev/fbs/cgsixX	SBus
SX	CG14	/dev/fbs/cgfourteenX	embedded SPARCstation 10SX SPARCstation 20
S24	tcx	/dev/fbs/tcxX	AFX Bus
FSV	tcx	/dev/fbs/tcxX	AFX Bus (embedded)
SunVideo	rtvc	/dev/rtvcX	SBus
Creator	ffb	/dev/fbs/ffbX	UPA Bus
Creator3D	ffb	/dev/fbs/ffbX	UPA Bus
Creator Series 2	ffb2	/dev/fbs/ffbX	UPA Bus
Creator3D Series 2	ffb2	/dev/fbs/ffbX	UPA Bus
PGX	M64	/dev/fbs/m64X	PCI Bus

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X denotes the device number for the device driver and FSV (tcx) is integrated on the SPARCstation 4 system motherboard.

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TTY Graphics Input Devices

• SunDials(TM)

• SunButtons(TM)

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  The SunDials and SunButtons products are not supported on all hardware. Contact your authorized Sun Support provider for more information.

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Networking and Communications

The following network and communications devices are supported:

• SBus Second Ethernet

• SBus SCSI/Buffered Ethernet Card (SBE/S)

• SBus Fast SCSI Buffered Ethernet Card (FSBE/S)

• SBus Differential SCSI Buffered Ethernet Card (DSBE/S)

• SBus Quad Ethernet Controller (SQEC)

• SunSwift SBus Adapter

• SunFastEthernet-2 SBus Adapter

• SunSwift PCI Adapter

Unbundled Options

• SBus Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI/S)

• SBus High-Speed Interface (HSI/S)

• SBus Token Ring Interface (TRI/S)

• SBus Prestoserve(TM)

• SBus SunATM(TM) 155

• SBus SunATM 622

• SBus Fibre Channel Card (FC/S)

• NVSIMM

• Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN)

• Serial Parallel Controller/SBus (SPC/S)

• SunPC(TM) Accelerator

• SunFDDI Single-Attach PCI Adapter

• SunFDDI Dual-Attach PCI Adapter

• SUNTRI Token Ring Interface PCI Adapter

• SUNHSI High-Speed Serial Interface PCI Adapter

• Sun Serial Asynchronous Interface PCI Adapter

Keyboard and Mouse Options

The following keyboard and mouse options are supported:

Keyboard Options

• Type 3 keyboard

• Type 4 keyboard

• Type 5 keyboard

• Compact 1 keyboard

Mouse Options

• M3 mouse

• M4 mouse

• Type 5 mouse

• Compact 1 mouse