Milan Jurik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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
This is what I did see also two days ago...
It is a shame that Solaris does not have a useful SATA support many yaears
after the move towards SATA dis start.
Currently, there are only _very_ few controllers supported and none of the
other supported controllers are a useful selection.
- A controller with the price of 3 server grade disks is no option if you
like to connect a single disk.
- Buying a new Intel based board is no option and the supported Intel
chips are not available in separate PCI cards.
- PCIe is no option for a 3 year old PCI board purchased in December
2005.
Note that I intentionally selected PCI only as in 2005 there have been
no decent controllers with other than PCI and there was even PCIx (disk
controllers only available) and PCIe (network controllers only).
Note that this is a four core system with two Opteron 880 (2400 MHz)
and that is is only ~ 10% slower than a recent Intel Core Duo Quad Dell
system.
- The board includes on-board SATA that is able to operate at 1.5 GBit/s
into system memory. It works on Linux.
- PCI is only the second choice for a disk that delivers 110 MB/s
sustained, as PCI only allows ~ 80 MB/s.
- I tried a SIL 3114 controller. It has bad firmware that completely hangs
up the BIOS at the time the first connected disk is conntected. This
controller is no option as it does not allow to reboot the syste.....
It works with Linux in native SATA mode, so it autodetects a disk
connected after boot.
Conclusion, there is currently _no_ option to connect a SATA disk to a decent
home system except by using a SATA <-> PATA or SATA <-> USB adaptor.
BTW: porting a Linux driver is not an option as long as Sun did not prove that
there is a will for a real collaboration with the community (see the
distressing actions of some Sun Engineers against the star integration
project).
Jörg
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