An update regarding the sb700 sata controller Sun is working on a fix regarding the bug.
The sb700 works fine in 32 and 64 bit with 2 and 4 and 8 GB ram on snv97 all in IDE mode, tested with one pata disk and 6 sata disks. IDE mode means no hotplugging and no NCQ. All these scenarios were tested. Now in AHCI mode. The sb700 works fine in 64 bit 2 GB ram one pata and 4 sata disks. The sb700 works fine in 32 bit 4 GB ram one pata and 4 sata disks. The bug appears in 64 bit 4GB ram and one pata and 4 sata disks. The fix solves the case above, I tested the fix. But what doesn't work in 64 bit 4GB ram is one pata and 6 sata disks. The bios is cannot display the last two sata disks. But this is mentioned and they do appear under a OS like windows or linux. Opensolaris only show 6 disks in total. The last sata is dropped. Beware to export any zpool(s) before changing from ide to ahci or the other way. Because the disks get other device names. And reimport them after the reboot. But first check if all your disks are present. I do think the amd chipsets are great for opensolaris since they support ECC and are relative low power. Apart from this problem I can recommend them, both sb600 and sb700. I never used an onboard nic but always an Intel nic. P.S. Before I get flamed. I know it isn't the chipset which provides the ECC functionality in an amd processor based solution. Since the memory controller is in the processor. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
