Hi There,

I believe that chipset is supported, but not in RAID mode. You should still be 
able to use it though and just have ZFS handle the RAID functionality using 
raidz (software RAID) which works quite well. You may not be able to have the 
drive the OS is on be part of the RAID, but adding other drives on the card and 
making them into a raidz should be possible. (I don't know if you have a 2 or 4 
port card, etc.)

This similar card (also using the 3114 Chipset) is on the HCL:

http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/data/components/details/1218.html

Though please note Pascal's comments there:

"Note: This will work ONLY if your controller is non-raid. Otherwise, if your 
ITE IT8212-based controller is RAID-enabled, it will be detected as a RAID 
controller instead of as a PCI IDE Controller which prevents the "Driver Info" 
implementation from working."

Run /usr/X11/bin/scanpci -v and look to see if the card is recognized, and then 
try checking /boot/solaris/devicedb/master and see if the card is listed.

Please see this Blog, and the closing comments, wherein it talks about possibly 
flashing your RAID card with the non RAID BIOS

http://blogs.sun.com/PlasticPixel/entry/build_your_own_multi_terabyte

http://www.siliconimage.com/docs/BIO-003114-100-5304.zip 

Good luck!
VegaBlue
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