Dan,
To make things a bit more complicated (!): We've had very good luck with our BIOS settings* at AHCI and 'Native' IDE mode enabled; these settings are for the P67A Intel controller on-board; these settings get us Command Queuing and HotPlug capabilities. They also allow pass-through of HDD SMART capabilities, for compatibility with smartctl. FWIW, I am aware of no driver available for the Marvell 88SE9128 controller on this mobo; we don't use it. Lou Picciano *this is on a GigaByte GA-P67A-UD7-B3 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Swartzendruber" <dswa...@druber.com> To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" <openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org> Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 12:58:09 PM Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Need a PCI e-sata card for OI151a On 3/27/2012 12:51 PM, Russell Hansen wrote: > A quick glance at the motherboard manual for what you have indicates the > probability that your on-board SATA ports aren't using AHCI. Likely some > compatibility mode meant for those poor souls that may have needed Win9x when > that BIOS was basically coded. > > http://www.supermicro.com/manuals/motherboard/3000/MNL-0889.pdf > Page 4-4 > > In the BIOS check to see if the SATA Controller Mode is set to Compatibile. > You will need to change it to Enhanced. (*Note: The Enhanced mode is > supported by the Windows 2000 OS or a later version. :-p ) > > From there the SATA RAID mode should default to Disabled. The SATA AHCI mode > you will want to change to Enabled. > > AHCI mode should give you hot-swap capabilities as well as let you use your > SSD with some sanity. > Must be a bios bug then. I am pretty sure (will confirm tonite) that the sata controller is set to enhanced. My other mobo x9scl-f that runs esxi has TWO settings for each port: one for whether to enable AHCI and one for whether to enable hot plug. I kid you not. If I can't figure this out, I may just get the $14 rosewill sil card - it's only for occasional backup to a WD Blue consumer sata drive. _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
