Hi, Pawel Wojcik pÃÅ¡e v po 22. 09. 2008 v 14:07 -0700: > Joerg, > > I do not know if VT8237R is ahci-compliant - it was not yet verified > to work with the Solaris ahci driver (VT8251 was verified). > Is BIOS mentioning somewhere AHCI mode? > Using Knopix, find the pci vendor id/device id of this controller. You > can try to add /etc/driver_aliases file either > ahci "pci1106,0591" (providing that this is correct vid/did > value) > or, a bit dangerous, > ahci "pciclass, 010400" > > IF this chip is ahci-compliant, it may work, considering that ahci > driver does not explicitly check vendor id. The caveat is, that you > may have to further exeperiment with RAID settings to let system BIOS > see unconfigured devices. > There will be no RAID operation in Solaris, but if the BIOS can see > individual disks that are not configured into RAID volumes and such > disks may be considered as boot device, AND Solaris ahci driver really > works with this chipset, then you my be able to used attached disks. > This, however, is by no means a general solution to deal with software > RAID controllers. > > -Pawel > P.S. Let me know, if this works. >
In my case no: update_drv -a -i 'pci1106,3149' ahci NOTICE: ahci0: hba AHCI version = 0.0 WARNING: ahci0: Don't support AHCI HBA with lower than version 1.0 Best regards, Milan
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