Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS Inexpensive SATA Whitebox

[Zhiqi Ni - Sun China ERI (Beijing)]

Hi Darren,     The Solaris Operating System for x86 Installation Check Tool 1.1 is designed to report whether Solaris drivers are available for the devices the tool detects on a x86 system and determine quickly whether your system is likely to be able to install the Solaris OS. It is not designed to make sure that the driver fully follows a certain specification or it is bug free.     The Solaris Operating System for x86 Installation Check Tool 1.1 is based on Solaris 10 Update 2 (06/06) kernel. The supported driver list also generated from s10u2. In s10u2, the MCP55 build-in NIC was not supported, so the tool reports it doesn't support. It's possible that nv_44 can detect that card, but snv is not officially released, so this Installation Check Tool won't support it.     I'd like to take this chance to introduce Hardware Certification Test Suite. The Hardware Certification Test Suite (HCTS) is the application and set of test suites that you can use to test your system or component to verify that it is compatible with the Solaris OS on x86 platforms. HCTS testing enables you to certify server, desktop, and laptop systems and to certify many different types of controllers. All hardware that passes certification testing is eligible to be included in the Solaris OS Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) as a certified system or component. Please note HCTS certifies hardware, but not drivers. If you are interest in this suite, go to http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/hcts/index.html and have a try.     Best regards, Ni, Zhiqi -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS Inexpensive SATA Whitebox Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 16:24:50 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: David Dyer-Bennet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > On 10/11/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> There are tools around that can tell you if hardware is supported by >> Solaris. >> One such tool can be found at: >> http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/hcts/install_check.html > > > Beware of this tool. It reports "Y" for both 32-bit and 64-bit on the > nVidia MCP55 SATA controller -- but in the real world, it's supported > only in compatibility mode, and (fatal flaw for me) *it doesn't > support hot-swap with this controller*. So apparently even a clean > result from this utility isn't a safe indication that the device is > fully supported. > > Also, it says that the nVidia MCP55 ethernet is NOT supported in > either 32 or 64 bit, but actually nv_44 found the ethernet without any > trouble. Maybe that's just that the support was extended recently; > the install tool is based on S10 6/06. Driver support for Solaris Nevada is not the same as Solaris 10 Update 2, so it is not surprising to see these discrepencies. In some cases, getting Solaris to support a piece of hardware is as simple as running the update_drv command to tell it about a new PCI id (these change often and are central to driver support on all x86 platforms.) > The more I learn about Solaris hardware support, the more I see it as > a minefield. I've found this to be true for almost all open source platforms where you're trying to use something that hasn't been explicitly used and tested by the developers. Darren _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

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