The information contained in this guide is organized as follows:
Table 1-1 Organization
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Chapter/Appendix Material covered OS applicability -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 Introducing the SBus Quad Ethernet Both 1.x and 2.x Controller Card 2 Installing SBus Quad Ethernet Controller Both 1.x and 2.x Card 3 Software InstallationUing Solaris 1.x 1.x only 4 Software InstallationUing Solaris 2.x 2.x only A Booting with OpenBoot PROM Both 1.x and 2.x B Interface Signals Both 1.x and 2.x C SQEC Card Specifications Both 1.x and 2.x D Running Diagnostic Tests Both 1.x and 2.x E Solaris 1.x Error Messages 1.x only -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
The SBus Quad Ethernet Controller (SQEC) card is an add-on option providing four fully buffered twisted-pair Ethernet ports (RJ45) on a single-wide SBus card. SQEC highlights are listed as follows.
Note - Level 2.x boot PROMs (or later) are required for systems using the SQEC card. If lower-level boot PROMs are installed on your system, you must upgrade the boot PROMs before using the SQEC card.
The SQEC card is supported on all SBus based Sun-4c, Sun-4m, and Sun-4d system architectures that run under Solaris® 1.x, revision 1.1 and later and Solaris 2.x, revision 2.3 or later - or other compatible operating systems. To utilize the SQEC card, the system also needs to contain OpenBoot(TM) PROM (OBP) level 2.0 or later. An on-board FCode PROM provides configuration support that identifies the SQEC card to the system and contains selftest routines.
Table 1-2 and Table 1-2 show examples of system architectures for Solaris 1.x and 2.x, respectively
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Platform Architecture System Type ------------------------------------------
Sun-4m SPARCserver 630MP SPARCserver 670MP SPARCserver 690MP SPARCclassic SPARCstation 5 SPARCstation 10 SPARCstation 20 SPARCstation LX ------------------------------------------
Table 1-3 Solaris 2.x Platform Architecture with System Examples
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Platform Architecture System Type ------------------------------------------------------
Sun-4c SPARCstation 1* & 1 +* SPARCstation 2 SPARCstation IPX & IPC Sun-4m SPARCserver 630MP SPARCserver 670MP SPARCserver 690M SPARCstation 5 SPARCstation 10 SPARCstation 20 SPARCclassic SPARCstation LX Sun-4d SPARCserver 1000 SPARCcenter 2000 *Do not install SQEC in slot 3 (slave-only slot). ------------------------------------------------------
Figure 1-1 SQEC Card Components
Figure 1-2 SQEC Back Panel