Re: [osol-discuss] SATA support for SPARC (not for booting though)

2008-09-05 Thread Javier O. Augusto
Thanks Pawel and Rich! I will try to use an elcheapo sil3114 and see what's up... Cheers, Javier On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 16:10 -0700, Pawel Wojcik wrote: Sil3114 is probably supported on SPARC by uata driver, because sil3114 operates in IDE compatible mode. SATA-native mode controllers, like

[osol-discuss] SATA support for SPARC (not for booting though)

2008-09-03 Thread Javier O. Augusto
Peeps, Anyone knows what's the state of SATA support for SPARC(for both Solaris 05/08 and OpenSolaris)? I don't need booting off SATA as I have SCSI but I would like to use a couple of 160MiB SATA disks I have. Something very simple like a 4 ports Sil 3114 would do it for my purposes (aka

Re: [osol-discuss] SATA support for SPARC (not for booting though)

2008-09-03 Thread Rich Reynolds
Should already be there, given that Sun Blade T6300's have SATA as an option (LSI SAS1068E controller) rich rich Javier O. Augusto wrote: Peeps, Anyone knows what's the state of SATA support for SPARC(for both Solaris 05/08 and OpenSolaris)? I don't need booting off SATA as I have SCSI

Re: [osol-discuss] SATA support for SPARC (not for booting though)

2008-09-03 Thread Pawel Wojcik
Sil3114 is probably supported on SPARC by uata driver, because sil3114 operates in IDE compatible mode. SATA-native mode controllers, like sil3124 are not currently supported on SPARC, but it should be fairly easy to port sata module and sil3124 SATA HBA driver to SPARC - perfect project for