On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 7:02 PM, Stefano Del Corno <stefano.delco...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, I'm sorry if the question have been already discussed in the past: > I'm having an issue with a PCI-e 3132 SATA card and a 3726 port > multiplier. Digging both the internet and OI discussions, I had the > feeling that this specific combination is working fine in a few > different environments. > > http://openindiana.org/pipermail/openindiana-discuss/2011-January/002209.html > http://openindiana.org/pipermail/openindiana-discuss/2011-May/003998.html > > I've loaded latest "ide" firmware (B7703) on my 3132 card. I tested > the pci-e card, the port multiplier and 4 attached sata drives under > linux: everything was working fine. I did also a couple of "raw" > performance tests with good results. Given the good experience under > "another OS" and given that I saw positive reports of SIL port > multipliers with SIL based SATA boards, I dropped both the card and > the port multiplier in my OpenIndiana box. > > I'm running OI 148 on a SuperMicro X7SPA-H board. It's booting from a > couple of USB drives (forming a mirrored rpool). Right now I'm using 4 > out of 6 internal sata connectors to drive a small SSD and 3 1.5tb > drives. My plan is to add the above mentioned 3124 + 3726 + 4drives to > my OpenIndiana box to test different protection schemes and run some > "zpool send" tests. > > The issue I'm experiencing is that I can only see the first drive > (port 0) I've attached to the port multiplier. >
I'm not sure where you heard otherwise, but only the ahci driver supports SATA port multipliers. -Albert _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
