On 10/12/06, John Sonnenschein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
well, it's an SiS 960 board, and it appears my only option to turn off probing of the drives is to enable RAID mode (which makes them inacessable by the OS)
I think the option is in the standard CMOS setup section, and allows you to set the disk geometry, translation, etc. There should be options for each disk, something like: auto detect/manual/not present. Hopefully your BIOS has a similar setting.
what would be my next (cheapest) option, a proper SATA add-in card? I've heard good things about the silicon image 3132 based cards, but I'm not sure if they'll still leave my BIOS in the same position if i run the drives in ATA mode
The best supported card is the Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8. Drivers are also present for the SiI 3132/3124 based cards in the SATA framework, but they haven't been updated in a while, and don't support NCQ yet. Either way, unless you are using a recent nevada build, any controller will only run in compatibility mode. Chris _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
