I recently had access, at work, to a Dell Precision 390 workstation. Unfortunately it was setup with Windows, but I was able to try it with the Belenix 0.6.1 LiveCD. The PC was fitted with dual SAS drives (seagate ST3146855SS) connected to a '5/iR' controller card, plugged into the PCI-e bus. Using the card firmware, the drives were setup as a mirrored pair. I thought it worth reporting here that this card does appear to be supported by OpenSolaris using the MPT driver. It looks like the chipset used on the card is the LSI 1068E. http://www.lsi.com/storage_home/products_home/standard_product_ics/sas_ics/lsisas1068e/index.html
Windows identified this card as "PCI\VEN_1000&DEV_0054&SUBSYS_1F091028". Shown below is edited highlights from a few Solaris commands. Unfortunately, it seems that the source code for the MPT driver is NOT available, as the MPT driver is on this list: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/about/no_source/ .. see the 'ON' tab. Regards, Nigel Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED])# /usr/X11/bin/scanpci pci bus 0x0003 cardnum 0x08 function 0x00: vendor 0x1000 device 0x0054 LSI Logic / Symbios Logic SAS1068 PCI-X Fusion-MPT SAS ([EMAIL PROTECTED])# prtconf -pv Node 0x000019 compatible: 'pci1000,54.1028.1f09.1' + 'pci1000,54.1028.1f09' + 'pci1028,1f09' + 'pci1000,54.1' + 'pci1000,54' + 'pciclass,010000' + 'pciclass,0100' model: 'SCSI bus controller' subsystem-vendor-id: 00001028 subsystem-id: 00001f09 vendor-id: 00001000 device-id: 00000054 name: 'pci1028,1f09' ([EMAIL PROTECTED])# prtconf -acD /devices/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/pci8086,[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ i86pc (driver name: rootnex) pci, instance #0 (driver name: npe) pci8086,27d0, instance #1 (driver name: pcie_pci) pci8086,32c, instance #4 (driver name: pcie_pci) pci1028,1f09, instance #0 (driver name: mpt) sd, instance #1 (driver name: sd) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])# modinfo 66 febaece0 560c 183 1 npe (Host to PCIe nexus driver 1.7) 70 febb9a60 1934 184 1 pcie_pci (PCIe to PCI nexus driver 1.10) 167 f0d98000 1d2d0 94 1 sd (SCSI Disk Driver 1.553) 171 f0dcd000 30428 169 1 mpt (MPT HBA Driver v1.97) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])# format Searching for disks...done c0t0d0: configured with capacity of 135.97GB AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS: 0. c0t0d0 <Dell-VIRTUALDISK-1028 cyl 139234 alt 2 hd 16 sec 128> /[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/pci8086,[EMAIL PROTECTED]/pci8086,[EMAIL PROTECTED]/pci1028,[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0 Specify disk (enter its number): ^D This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
