SATA controller for Solaris
RL
I purchased a low-cost SATA controller based on the VIA VT6421 chipset,
due to problems with the onboard IDE not working correctly (Solaris and
FreeBSD both show retryable errors, on two identical systems, so it is
something to do with this particular board of the chipset on the board).
Unfortunately it seems Solaris is unable to recognise the VIA
controller, at least during installation.
Does anyone know what chipsets are supported by Solaris for SATA
controllers, or alternatively if it is possible to use the existing
controller with Solaris?
I am seriously limited in hardware choice. VIA and Silicon Image-based
cards are the only products I can find locally. I have a Supermicro
SAT2-MV8 which I intend to use with Solaris, which I had to import
specifically for this project, but that will be entirely dedicated to
the RAID.
Running Solaris 10 U3.
Thanks,
RL
CK
>Hi,
>
>I purchased a low-cost SATA controller based on the VIA VT6421 chipset,
>due to problems with the onboard IDE not working correctly (Solaris and
>FreeBSD both show retryable errors, on two identical systems, so it is
>something to do with this particular board of the chipset on the board).
>
>Unfortunately it seems Solaris is unable to recognise the VIA
>controller, at least during installation.
>
>Does anyone know what chipsets are supported by Solaris for SATA
>controllers, or alternatively if it is possible to use the existing
>controller with Solaris?
Have a look at this:
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/
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> Does anyone know what chipsets are supported by Solaris for SATA
> controllers, or alternatively if it is possible to use the existing
> controller with Solaris?
>
> I am seriously limited in hardware choice. VIA and Silicon Image-based
> cards are the only products I can find locally. I have a Supermicro
> SAT2-MV8
Which is a silicon image chipset, yes? anyway look through the
archives for zfs-d...@opensolaris.org, lots of talk there about
supported controllers. Anyway, sil3124 is supported so you shouldn't
have a problem finding something.
-frank
RL
> Which is a silicon image chipset, yes? anyway look through the
> archives for zfs-d...@opensolaris.org, lots of talk there about
> supported controllers. Anyway, sil3124 is supported so you shouldn't
> have a problem finding something.
Thanks for your response. The Supermicro card is actually a "Marvell
Hercules-2 Rev. C0" controller, but I have seen numerous references
online to people using this card with Solaris (in particular for ZFS as
I plan to).
I will attempt to find a suitable controller with the chipset you
mention, and check the mailing list archives. This is my first time
using Solaris at home, after several years of being away from a job
where it was used, so I'm still discovering where I can find the details
I need.
Thanks,
RL
Barnacle Bill the Sailor
which uses an Nvidia chipset. It worked fine and the kernel was SunOS 5
point something or other. You might check if there is a setting to make
your controller emulate IDE. Some I hear can do that.
Chris Ridd
But note there is a bug (CR 6566207) in the driver's interrupt code,
and although there's a patch for it from Roger Fujii I don't *think* it
has got into the sources yet.
<http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=32452>
Cheers,
Chris
Juergen Keil
> But note there is a bug (CR 6566207) in the driver's interrupt code,
> and although there's a patch for it from Roger Fujii I don't *think*
> it has got into the sources yet.
Should be fixed in snv_71:
changeset: 6565894 sata drives are not identified by si3124 driver
changeset 4810: e0f9dee1a2b9
parent 4809: 449081c7eb0a
child 4811: 3eec88508b94
author: johansen
date: Mon Aug 06 16:14:44 2007 -0700 (2 weeks ago)
files: usr/src/uts/common/io/sata/adapters/si3124/si3124.c
description: 6565894 sata drives are not identified by si3124 driver
6566207 si3124 driver loses interrupts.
And:
Gary R. Schmidt
And when will it get into Solaris? (I mean S10 or 11 or ..., not Nevada
or SX.)
Cheers,
Gary B-)
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Michelle
works on a sparc (Sunblade 1500) so I could add drives over 130GB in it.
Chris Ridd
> Juergen Keil wrote:
>
>> Chris Ridd <chri...@mac.com> writes:
>>
>>
>>> But note there is a bug (CR 6566207) in the driver's interrupt code,
>>> and although there's a patch for it from Roger Fujii I don't *think*
>>> it has got into the sources yet.
>>
>>
>> Should be fixed in snv_71:
Cool.
>>
>> changeset: 6565894 sata drives are not identified by si3124 driver
>> changeset 4810: e0f9dee1a2b9
>> parent 4809: 449081c7eb0a
>> child 4811: 3eec88508b94
>> author: johansen
>> date: Mon Aug 06 16:14:44 2007 -0700 (2 weeks ago)
>> files: usr/src/uts/common/io/sata/adapters/si3124/si3124.c
>> description: 6565894 sata drives are not identified by si3124 driver
>> 6566207 si3124 driver loses interrupts.
>>
>>
>> And:
>>
>> <URL:http://src.opensolaris.org/source/diff/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/uts/common/io/sata/adapters/si3124/si3124.c?r2=4810&r1=3116>
And
>>
> when will it get into Solaris? (I mean S10 or 11 or ..., not Nevada or SX.)
Maybe it is the reason U4 is delayed :-)
Cheers,
Chris
Andreas Wacknitz
> Actually I'd love to find a reasonablly priced SATA controller that
> works on a sparc (Sunblade 1500) so I could add drives over 130GB in it.
>
Andreas
Michelle
1500 has a pci-x slot?
Andreas Wacknitz
> ohh interesting... on a sparc? I am trying to think of the sunblade
> 1500 has a pci-x slot?
PCI works also. You need a 3,3V Slot (Blade 2000 has one of them).
Gary R. Schmidt
Cheers,
Gary B-)
erik magnuson
> Actually I'd love to find a reasonablly priced SATA controller that
> works on a sparc (Sunblade 1500) so I could add drives over 130GB in it.
>
Another option is to use an external USB or Firewire drive. I've got a
couple of LaCie Firewire drives running with my SB1500 - formatting them
for UFS wasn't all that hard once I figured out that 'vold' had to be
disabled with 'svcadm' - use 'format' to label the disk then 'newfs' to
create the UFS filesystem.
- Erik
Chris Ridd
> Chris Ridd wrote:
>> Maybe it is the reason U4 is delayed :-)
>>
> D'ya reckon?!?! :-)
Not really :-(
Cheers,
Chris
Michelle
Michelle
SATA II drives to try this. It worked perfect with solaris 10 and a
sunblade 1500. Thank you so much for the information... I've been trying
to get around the size limitations of the sun ide controllers.
Michelle
Michelle
with SUN? It does hardware raid 1 and 0 correct? thankyou!
John Hines
>I forgot to ask, can the LSILogic controllers raid functionality work
>with SUN? It does hardware raid 1 and 0 correct? thankyou!
Let Solaris handle it with ZFS. You can do a mirror or raidz if you
have 3 or more disks.
That way it will still work with a different controller, like if yours
breaks, or you upgrade.