David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
Turns out Solaris nv_44 is only finding the first 4 SATA controllers
on my motherboard. The BIOS sees the drives on the next two (6 SATA
on the motherboard), but Solaris doesn't. Any chance I can configure
around this? Seems like supporting 4 ought to be just a few
parameters away from supporting 6. I have no clue how Solaris device
identification, matching to drivers, and driver configuration happens.
Here's the system-report from the Solaris 10 install-test utility, in
hopes it defines what's on my motherboard in sufficient detail for
somebody to actually answer this question :0). If the tweaks would
let me do hot-swap on these devices I'd be even more excited, they're
in a Chenbro hot-swap chassis but Solaris doesn't seem to support
hot-swap on this controller, sadly. Motherboard is an Asus M2N-SLE
Deluxe.
Workaround: I guess the workaround is to get a 4-port card to support
the last 4 hot-swap bays, and get one that actually supports hot-swap,
and hope those are the drives that fail :-). But I'm not really
interested in spending *more* money to try to get this to work with
Solaris without an ironclad guaranty at this point.
Vendor Device: Type Name Solaris Driver: 32BIT
64BIT
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
nVidia Corpora... U MCP55 USB Controller Y Y
nVidia Corpora... U MCP55 USB Controller Y Y
nVidia Corpora... S MCP55 IDE Y Y
nVidia Corpora... S MCP55 SATA Controller Y Y
Texas Instruments F TSB43AB22/A IEEE-1394a-2000 Controlle... Y Y
nVidia Corpora... M MCP55 High Definition Audio N N
nVidia Corpora... N MCP55 Ethernet N N
JMicron Techno... S JMicron 20360/20363 AHCI Controller Y Y
nVidia Corpora... V Unknown device Y Y
Driver Notes:
Y - Solaris Driver Found; T - Third Party Driver; N - No Solaris Driver
Device Types:
V - Video; N - Network; S - Storage; M - Multimedia; U - USB; F - Firewire;
Notes:
This system is likely to install Solaris 10 6/06. Check the list above
for driver availability for identified devices.
Make sure that you don't have RAID configured on the second
set of SATA ports; Solaris doesn't grok SATA raid.
Which driver is attaching? If Solaris is working on your controller
w/ legacy PATA emulation (if cmdk is the driver) then hot plug won't
work soon.
- Bart
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Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance
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