On Mo, 2014-11-03 at 15:42 -0800, Paul B. Henson via smartos-discuss wrote: > On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 11:29:25AM +0100, Christopher J. Ruwe via > smartos-discuss wrote: > > > > has a Marvell 88SE9230 SATA3 controller which I suspect to be the > > problem. The SATA controller works fine on pfSense 2.1 (FreeBSD 8.3) > > and later FreeBSD flavours. > > You suspect correctly. That Marvell controller is a piece of crap that fails > to adhere to the AHCI specification. > > I tried to use a similar configuration with OpenBSD last year: > > http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.misc/208651 > > The FreeBSD driver incorporates a number of workarounds to deal with the > incorrect operation of the Marvell controller. Barring similar kludges in > the illumos ahci driver, it's just not going to work. > > I ended up going with a different board with a different SATA controller, > it's not worth the headache of trying to deal with crap hardware :(. >
Thanks for that info. So I need to think about a different low-power SmartOS solution. I will nevertheless try to walk the path Nahum and Keith suggested around weekendish, it is a good opportunity to learn something about how to peed at malfunctioning drivers. Thanks for all your input, cheers, -- Christopher ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
