SUN HBA card + Apple Xraid 7Tb

I am about to connect SUN x4100 (Solaris 10) + SUN HBA card (SG-XPCI2FC-QF2-Z, http://www.sun.com/storagetek/storage_networking/hba/) to Apple XRAID 7Tb (http://www.apple.com/xserve/raid/specs.html).
Does someone know any showstoppers that this alliance can produce? (some compatiblity problems, performance issues or something like that)...
Since SUN HBA card has SFF LC connector - I need to use SFP-LC tranceiver to connect the card to XRAID that uses SFP. Will this tranceiver suite my needs? - http://www.finisar.com/optics/FTRJ8519P1xNL.php
The only page that can be found at SUN.com is http://www.sun.com/iotechnologies/faq_xserveraid.html. This page does not privide any additional information about SUN HBA card model/number.
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I don't know; I don't work with Solaris much personally. I've certainly had issues with Solaris 9 on SPARC, but that's a totally different beast.
I'd suggest you try mounting it with a big (2.5TB+) LUN. IF it doesn't work, try slicing the LUN in 2 and rebooting the host, and looking again. If it works, then there's your answer.
If you don't have live data on there, it's really not hard to re-merge the 2 LUNs into 1... so testing this isn't all that much time or effort.

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Server: SUN V890, Solaris 10
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I changed another HBA card and I/O solt,the problem again,
errors following:
This is the only error i got ,please help out,thanks.
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*Nov 9 01:21:51 N2000Primary pcicfg: [ID 756804 kern.warning] WARNING: failed to allocate 256 bytes for dev fibre-channel BASE register [0x10]*_
Nov 9 01:21:52 N2000Primary rootnex: [ID 349649 kern.info] pcisch3 at root: SAFARI 0x9 0x600000
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Nov 9 01:21:52 N2000Primary pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: dld0
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Nov 9 01:21:53 N2000Primary unix: [ID 950921 kern.info] cpu7: UltraSPARC-IV (portid 7 impl 0x18 ver 0x31 clock 1350 MHz)
Nov 9 01:21:53 N2000Primary unix: [ID 950921 kern.info] cpu0: UltraSPARC-IV (portid 0 impl 0x18 ver 0

I see this reply is a little late, but just came upon it.
http://wikis.sun.com/display/PlatformIoSupport/Summit4Gb2PortFcQlogic
As you can see in the link above the SG-XPCI2FC-QF4 is not supported in the V890
JK

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http://store.apple.com/us/search?find=macpro+raidcard&mco=MzE2OTk1OQ
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http://store.apple.com/us/product/TV824ZM/A?mco=MzE2OTkyOA
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I think you could be in luck with the SG-XPCI1FC-QL2 as it is on the handbook for the E250.
However, you have lucked out with the SG-XPCI1FC-QF4 as there is no chance you will make one of those work in a E250. These cards require the new I/O assemblies for the large Sun Fires.
I think the SG-XPCI1FC-QL2 is rebadged Qlogic QLA2300 (I am not certain of this but I will give it a go in the future) . Go to the Qlogic web site:
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Hi, I'm intent to using FC rather than network. Already upgrade the storage to 2010.02.09.1.0,1-1.15 version.
Then, i install a 2x Qlogic HBA ( SG-XPCIE1FC-QF4), but the storedge unable to recognized it. From BIOS i can see the Qlogic have been detect.
From shell mode, run cfgadm ( the HBA card not detect).
Here some logs,
boot with "-v" ( Able to see the HBA detect as qlc0 and qlc1)
PCI Express-device: pci10de,377@a, pcieb2
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