I have to say I've had pretty spotty experience with that chipset. Intel and nVidia chipsets have been much kinder to me. If you can, I'd try to go with another controller. I still don't understand why SATA implementations vary so widely in quality...sigh.
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 3:39 AM, Matt Durkin <matthew.durkin at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > I'm trying to install OpenSolaris. I have a PCIRAID card with the SIl3114 > controller. When I boot into the live image and run the Device Driver > Utility, it detect the card correctly but reports driver unavailable. > I've done a lot of searching on this issue and most threads point to > installing the non-raid version of the Sil3114 BIOS. I have done this, and > still get the same problem. In fact I've tried several different BIOS > versions running back over several years, all with the same problem. > Does anyone have OpenSolaris working with this PCIRAID card? > BTW - I do not wish to use it as a RAID card, I just want to make the disks > available to ZFS. > Any help / ideas much appreciated, > Matt > -- > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-help mailing list > opensolaris-help at opensolaris.org >
