> Thought I'd mention our positive experience with the > Supermicro 7045B (X7DBE motherboard) and the ahci > driver. > > Previously we've been running this board with the > raid controller in compatibility mode and only using > four of the drive slots. After reading various posts > in this forum I decided to load the ahci driver > package from the release 57 iso and see what happens. > > > After modifying the bios settings to use AHCI mode > we're able to: > - See the drives in up to 6 slots > - Build ZFS pools on them > - Hot remove a drive from the box and Solaris > correctly handles it with the ZFS utils reporting the > correct status, etc. In compatibility mode sometimes > this experiment would cause Solaris to hang.
For compatibility option, the controller is working on legacy mode by using cmdk/ata driver, and it doesn't support hot-plug. > - We're unable to hot plug in a drive and have it > recognized, a reboot is required before the drive is > seen. > At the moment, sata's hot-plug infrastruct requires to run "cfgadm -c configure" manually to configure the hot-plugged device, otherwise it won't be recognized. Thanks, - ying - > Overall, this is very positive, thank you to the > Solaris team. > > Note that we have not done any I/O performance tests > yet so nothing to report there. > > > Our Configuration: > Solaris Express/Developer build 55 > ahci driver from OpenSolaris 57 > 4 Seagate 250GB sata drives > 1 IDE drive for the OS (seagate) > 2 Xeons > > > Rick This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
