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Hello,

anyone using sata PCI controller on sun/solaris 10 workstations? I would
love to add a PCI card so that I can use sata HD. I will keep my primary
(boot) SCSI hd and I will use the sata hds only for data storage. Anyone
can report sil3112/3114/3115 specific models working? Is RAID working?
Any future release/support?

I have seen on Alan DuBoff's blog that he tested Adaptec sata controller
I was wondering if the latest version of solaris (express) supports the
raid sil3112/14/15 controllers.

any suggestion? ;)

Thank you for your help!

Sata is just an economical scsi interface with more capacity and standards
similar to ide.  Why not get a scsi array going?  Scsi disks are faster,
even if they are smaller.  I don't know exactly how you'd go about putting
sata on a pci controller, especially on a Sparc.  Considering the
disklabels alone are insanely different, and that no one officially
provides sata for Sparc machines, I wouldn't do it.  If you want to lose a
disk, then try making a Sun disklabel on the disk if you ever get it to
recognize.  Other then that I think it'd be nearly impossible to even get
to the part addressed above.
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James Cornell
Unix Systems Administrator
http://www.unixdevil.org

Quote:> anyone using sata PCI controller on sun/solaris 10 workstations? I
> would love to add a PCI card so that I can use sata HD. I will keep my
> primary (boot) SCSI hd and I will use the sata hds only for data
> storage. Anyone can report sil3112/3114/3115 specific models working?

Yes, I'm using si3114 on a Tyan 2885 motherboard at home with Solaris.
Works well.

Quote:> Is RAID working? Any future release/support?

Not yet at the controller level; it's in progress.  But you can set up
the software LVM RAID support, which is a bit more flexible anyway.

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Hi James,

Thank you for you answer... ;)

Quote:> Yes, I'm using si3114 on a Tyan 2885 motherboard at home with Solaris.
> Works well.

I have investigated on the topic, and unfortunately accordingly on all
the docs I have found around (docs.sun.com and google..) it looks like
the sata sil3112 controllers are not supported on sparc systems. That's
a pity I had a HD here waiting for some data, well maybe it's just
matter of time and we will see (hopefully) some sata support on sparc
systems too (maybe in solaris express?)

If anyone from sun can comment... ;)