Javen,
Thanks for the clarification. sounds it works seemless regardless of
the underlying media
as long as the interface is ide. Media access is faster with ssd
compared to traditional
drive. Right now we are using Compact Flash card with IDE interface to
boot Solaris.
In future, planning to support to SSD. I got confused with PCI based SSD
drive, which
bypasses SCSI stack and just supporting only block interface. Since, in
this scenario,
target and initiator talks same ide protocol, there doesnt seem any
additional suppport.
Just have to see how it improves IO performance..
Will get in touch when I have SSD drive ready. Right now, I am investigating
what is needed to use SSD on this platoform.
Thanks again,
Venu.
Javen Wu wrote:
> Venu,
>
> As I know, regardless SSD or traditional disk drive, if the interface
> is IDE(not SATA) on x86, the target driver is cmdk(7D), controller
> driver is ata(7D).
> Current solaris doesn't care it's SSD or old drive, only care
> protocol, so I think current solaris is suppose to works fine with
> SSD, at least basic I/O function.
> Could you describe more specific, what kind of feature you referred
> against SSD which is lack of support in Solaris?
> I know, SSD is advanced technology and it need do performance
> optimization in operation system. But I want to make sure beside
> performance optimization, what feature you want to see in Solaris?
>
> Thanks
> Javen
>
> Venu Chennupati wrote:
>> Does the solaris has the driver for solid state drive with ide
>> interface. if so could you
>> please let me know the pointers to the driver source or any relevant
>> to ssd support.
>>
>> TIA,
>> Venu.
>>
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