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Hey fellas I got an adaptec serial ata raid controller wich apparently isnt
supported by solaris.
Is there any way I can get it to work?

If you wrote your own driver for it, it might work! :-)

Put it in a windows box.

Useit with FreeBSD  :-)

http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.4R/hardware-i386.html#DISK

//Lars

A good suggestion.  FreeBSD is a great OS.  Now if only OpenSolaris
would have a ports system....

Which Adaptec SATA RAID would that be? Solaris 10 seems to atleast support
the Adaptec S2410SA SATA RAID controller.

http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/usr/src/uts/intel/io/aac/aac.c

{0x9005, 0x285, 0x9005, 0x285, "Adatpec 2200S   "},
    203         {0x9005, 0x285, 0x9005, 0x286, "Adaptec 2120S   "},
    204         {0x9005, 0x285, 0x9005, 0x290, "Adaptec 2410SA  "},
    205         {0x9005, 0x285, 0x1028, 0x287, "Dell PERC 320/DC"},
    206         {0x1028, 0xa, 0x1028, 0x121, "Dell PERC 3/Di"},
    207         {0x1028, 0xa, 0x1028, 0x11b, "Dell PERC 3/Di"},
    208         {0x1028, 0xa, 0x1028, 0x106, "Dell PERC 3/Di"},
    209         {0x1028, 0x8, 0x1028, 0xcf, "Dell PERC 3/Di"},
    210         {0x1028, 0x2, 0x1028, 0xd9, "Dell PERC 3/Di"},
    211         {0x1028, 0x2, 0x1028, 0xd1, "Dell PERC 3/Di"},
    212         {0x1028, 0x4, 0x1028, 0xd0, "Dell PERC 3/Si"},
    213         {0x1028, 0x3, 0x1028, 0x3, "Dell PERC 3/Si"},
    214         {0x1028, 0x2, 0x1028, 0x2, "Dell PERC 3/Di"},
    215         {0x1028, 0x1, 0x1028, 0x1, "Dell PERC 3/Di"},
    216         {0, 0, 0, 0, "AAC card      "},

- Peter
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Hi Johnny,

it looks like some adaptec cards work in solaris-x86 and NOT in solaris
sparc. So before wasting your time with sata, be aware it works only on
solaris x86.

You can also find a good sata support summary here:

http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/nachiketa/20050614#general_notes_on_...

and here:

http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/mlf?entry=ata_on_solaris_x86_at

I hope that in the future sata will be supported on sparc :)

have fun!

Quote:> Hey fellas I got an adaptec serial ata raid controller wich apparently isnt
> supported by solaris.
> Is there any way I can get it to work?

Try NetBSD's pkgsrc.

It works quite well under Solaris, so it should also work on
OpenSolaris. The main issue I found (under Solaris 8) was that
compiling some X programs got a bit dicey with Imake.

It was a bit of a fight since Imake assumes Sun's C compiler, and so
you if you're using GCC you have to re-adjust things a bit to make
sure the correct compiler options are defined.

--
David Magda <dmagda at ee.ryerson.ca>
Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under
the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well
under the new. -- Niccolo Machiavelli, _The Prince_, Chapter VI

What you write is based on hope.....

We are working on portage to OpenSolaris and it is more than
using NetBSD's software. Did you ever try it on OpenSolaris?

Making X compile on OpenSolaris is not trivial. We are working on
it and there are running X binaries on OpenSolaris since about 2 weeks.

If you are looking for a source package system for OpenSolaris (and other OS)
have a look at sps sps.berlios.de/pkg/

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pkgsrc is not "NetBSD's software". It is portable across several
systems, and while it's true that its initial (and still strongest)
focus is NetBSD, it is very useful on the other supported systems
aswell.

mkb.

Did you try it on OpenSolaris?

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