Francois Noel wrote: > I'm having a problem getting my sata disks to be detected in AHCI mode on > a Via VT8251 controller. It is supposed to be supported with the native > AHCI driver but it's not working. It looks like the controller is > detected but it does not recognize the drives that are attached to it. I > installed the OS on an IDE drive in order to get the box running. > > Here is what I'm using: > > SunOS hoya 5.11 snv_64a i86pc i386 i86pc, in 64bit. > > My motherboard is a Asus A8V-XE which is based on a VIA VT8251 with 4 > sata connections. On each of those, there is a Hitachi HDS722525VLSA80 > connected and none of them is recognized. They are, only when I configure > the bios in IDE mode. I tried another type of drive (Seagate) just to > make sure it was not this model that had a problem but without success. > > There is no AHCI messages in /var/adm/messages.
You might need to run some update_drv magic, eg # update_drv -a -i ' "pci1106,3349" "pci1043,81b5" ' ahci > I attached prtconf -pv as reference as well as cfgadm -al. > > Another problem I experienced is a system panic whenever I disconnect a > sata cable from a drive when the system is running. That gets written in > messages: > ------------------------ Aug 27 18:48:59 hoya ahci: [ID 812726 kern.info] NOTICE: ahci phyrdy: port 0 device link lost Aug 27 18:48:59 hoya genunix: [ID 335743 kern.notice] BAD TRAP: type=e (#pf Page fault) rp=ffffff0007cd58e0 addr=10 occurred in module "ahci" due to a NULL pointer dereference Aug 27 18:48:59 hoya genunix: [ID 655072 kern.notice] ffffff0007cd5a50 ahci:ahci_mop_commands+31a () Aug 27 18:48:59 hoya genunix: [ID 655072 kern.notice] ffffff0007cd5ac0 ahci:ahci_reject_all_abort_pkts+b4 () Aug 27 18:48:59 hoya genunix: [ID 655072 kern.notice] ffffff0007cd5b60 ahci:ahci_intr_phyrdy_change+164 () Aug 27 18:48:59 hoya genunix: [ID 655072 kern.notice] ffffff0007cd5bc0 ahci:ahci_intr+1b3 () Aug 27 18:55:59 hoya savecore: [ID 570001 auth.error] reboot after panic: BAD TRAP: type=e (#pf Page fault) rp=ffffff0007cd58e0 addr=10 occurred in module "ahci" due to a NULL pointer dereference ---------------------- > > Very strange as the disk is not in use. I could send the corefile if > someone is willing to have a look. You don't know that the disk is not in use, and you are disconnecting a device which - from the look of it - does not support hotplug operation. Why did you think you could disconnect the device while the system is running? James C. McPherson -- Solaris kernel software engineer Sun Microsystems _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list storage-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
