I have booted up an osol-dev-131 live CD on a Dell Precision T7500, and the AHCI driver successfully loaded, to give access to the two sata DVD drives in the machine.
(Unfortunately, I did not have the opportunity to attach any hard drives, but I would expect that also to work.) 'scanpci' identified the southbridge as an Intel 82801JI (ICH10 family) Vendor 0x8086, device 0x3a22 AFAIK, as long as the SATA interface report a PCI ID class-code of 010601, then the AHCI device driver should load. The mode of the SATA interface will need to be selected in the BIOS. There are normally three modes: Native IDE, RAID or AHCI. 'scanpci' should report different class-codes depending on the mode selected in the BIOS. RAID mode should report a class-code of 010400 IDE mode should report a class-code of 0101xx With OpenSolaris, you can see the class-code in the output from 'prtconf -pv'. If Native IDE is selected the ICH10 SATA interface should appear as two controllers, the first for ports 0-3, and the second for ports 4 & 5. Regards Nigel Smith -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
