Solaris 8 on Dell Power Edge 4400

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Thus far, I have followed instructions found elsewhere to grab the Adaptec
cadp160 driver, which I successfully install in the Device Configuration Assistant. Every time I select the CD as my boot device, the system wedges while trying to load adp.bef, with a "short read" error. Eventually, the system fails out to the boot interpreter.
This system has 2x1Ghz P4's on it, onboard AIC-7899 (where a Quantum Atlas V lives) and AIC-7880 SCSI controllers, plus a PCI AHA 2940 controller (on which the CD lives).
This is very frustrating--I couldn't install Solaris 8 on my Dell Dimension 4100 either (ACPI tables not in reclaim memory bug).
I am using the Solaris 8 01/01 boot images, FYI.
Has anyone out there successfully gotten Solaris 8 to install and boot on one of these beasts?
Thanks,
Chris

After thrashing for 2 weeks with the onboard 7880 SCSI and onboard 7890 RAID controllers, I was finally able to load up Solaris 8 on a Poweredge 2400. (4/01 build)
The only way I was able to do it was configure the server as below:
7880 SCSI: CD-ROM drive only device on this controller, set to ID 5.
7890 RAID controller: Disabled. Dont' believe Dell or Adaptec, this card will not work with Solaris 7 or 8. Even with the RAID chip removed and running as standard SCSI controller, it still would not work.
Adaptec 2940 U2W: 9G Quantum Atlas V drive with HP SureStore DAT 24i drive.
PERC II RAID controller yanked out of older 4100 system, 3 drives running RAID 5.
Important note: Do not attach anything to the 7880 controller besides the CD. The system will not boot if attempting to boot to the HD or if you attempt to boot from CD, it will hang at the adp.bef file.
Hope this helps..
Mike

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