Jonathan, On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 02:33:43PM +0200, Jonathan Groll wrote: > On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 11:25:34AM +0200, Arvid Warnecke wrote: > > I then looked up the hcl for a not too expensive sata controller that is > > supported and found the adaptec: > > http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/data/components/details/801.html > > > > When looking into the details I read that it has the Sil3112a > > chipset with bios version 4.2.11. My onboard sata controller > > identifies itself on boot as Sil3112a with bios version 4.2.27. > > > > Is it possible that the detection tool just is not able to analyze > > the controller correctly because there is no disk attached to it > > yet? Or is there such a great difference between the controllers > > even though they seem to have the same chipset? > > I have found links that suggest your card is supported (and it does > appear in the opensolaris source), but I have no idea how you would > activate support for it. Do you see a reference to it in your dmesg? > > > Read this: > http://www.dansketcher.com/solaris-sata-support-for-onboard-chipsets/ > thank you for that link. But there are not too many details available, it seems... And I don't see anything about that sata controller in my dmesg
But I am wondering what the chances are, that it changes from the detection, when there is a drive attached. On the other hand I am not willing to spend money on a new harddisk when I might have to buy an expensive sata controller later, too. Cheers, Arvid _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list [email protected]
