zfs discuss - Mar 2008 - Solaris Drivers (was: 7-disk raidz achieves 430 MB/s reads and 220 MB/s writes on a $1320 box)

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 1:50 AM, Marc Bevand <m.bevand at gmail.com>
wrote:
>  PCI-X card...). The rest is also dirty cheap: $65 Asus M2A-VM motherboard,
$60
>  dual-core Athlon 64 X2 4000+, with 1GB of DDR2 800, and a 400W PSU.
Apologies for the threadjack (um, again) but did you know that the
RS690 chipset would be supported before buying it, or did you get the
output from lspci elsewhere, or did you just hope?

Looking at the device list from
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/devicelist/ , there''s no indication
that the 690 will work with Solaris. In fact, the ahci driver (which
is what you mentioned you''re using) doesn''t even show up on
that list.
The SXDE man page for ahci only lists support for the Intel ICH6/7/8/9
and VIA vt8251. (
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-2254/ahci-7d?a=view )

The lack of documentation for supported devices is a general complaint
of mine with Solaris x86, perhaps better taken to the
opensolaris-discuss list however.

-B

Brandon High <bhigh <at> freaks.com> writes:
> [...]
> The lack of documentation for supported devices is a general complaint
> of mine with Solaris x86, perhaps better taken to the opensolaris-discuss
> list however.
I replied to all your questions in opensolaris-discuss.

-marc