On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:01:55 -0600 (CST)
Bob Friesenhahn <bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, Frank Cusack wrote:
>
> > what firewire cards are supported for x86? the HCL doesn't list
> > any that i could find. i searched for any of the terms 'firewire',
> > '1394', 'ohci', 'uhci', 'ehci'.
>
> The Sun Ultra-40 (recently discontinued) comes with dual 400Mbit
> firefire ports. See if you can figure out what hardware it uses. I
> would be surprised if it is not the same hardware that was used for
> SPARC systems like the Blade 2500 and Ultra-45, with a commercially
> available adaptor card still available as recent as a couple of years
> ago (when I last checked). The firewire support in the Ultra-40 is
> from the motherboard rather than an adaptor card.
>
> However, be aware that bugs causing problems with ZFS were reported
> against the Firewire support, and it is not clear if anyone got
> around to fixing them even though the fix was apparently simple.
>
> I am using USB2 with two external drives without problem.
Hi Frank,
This is what lspci reports on my u40m2 system:
01:08.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A IEEE-1394a-2000
Controller (PHY/Link) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp.: Unknown device 6676
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 64 (500ns min, 1000ns max), cache line size 10
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
Region 0: Memory at a0104800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
Region 1: Memory at a0100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA
PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME+
prtconf reports that the full pci vid/did information is
pci104c,8023.108e.6676.0
As Bob mentioned, this is on the motherboard rather than
a plugin card.
James C. McPherson
--
Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris
Sun Microsystems
http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog
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