Hi Joerg, Joerg Schilling pÃÅ¡e v Ät 25. 09. 2008 v 12:49 +0200: > 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. >
The situation is improving, slowly, but improving. Look at driver-discuss@/storage-discuss@/code-discuss@, you will see people are working on drivers for various SATA controllers (like Areca new driver putbacked few days ago). > 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. > I'm using USB for now. Not optimal, but it's cheaper than additional card. > 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). > And? Must your driver be integrated in ON? I believe you can maintain it outside of ON, if you want to ignore others. There are public interfaces, so there is no need to maintain it in ON. Also, if you will decide to port driver for it, look at *BSD, they have more friendly license ;-) Best regards, Milan
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