>>>>> "jcm" == James C McPherson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
jcm> I assume you're referring to mpt(7d) here?
jcm> Since we started shipping it at all, with Solaris _8_, it's
jcm> definitely been available in Solaris 10.
no, I was mistaken then.
My perhaps mistaken understanding though was that there's a scsi_vhci
sort of driver for the LSI card in the Ultra {20,25}---I'm talking
about whichever was the SPARC Ultra, not the x86 thing stupidly called
Ultra <nn>. This driver made the card look like a SCSI host adapter
and made SATA disks attach through the sd driver, sort oflike a RAID
card in JBOD mode, to work around the problem that the SATA framework
is not endian-clean.
Then there is the LSISAS3801E which people here have been buying, about
which I have these notes:
-----8<-----
> The driver for LSI's MegaRAID SAS card is "mega_sas" which
> was integrated into snv_88. It's planned for backporting to
> a Solaris 10 update.
There is also a BSD-licensed driver for that hardware, called
"mfi". It's available from
http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~dlg/mfi
-----8<-----
and AIUI this is a SATA framework driver. so, althouigh this new
fashionable card may be FusionMPT-ish, it doesn't use the mpt driver,
and it uses a different branch of the rest of the storage stack than
the mpt driver.
Am I right?
The important short-sighted thing to me for using the SATA stack
instead of doing SCSI translation inside the proprietary driver, would
be that smartctl works and SATA DVD burners and stuff work, but from
what I've heard here smartctl is not completely working on any card.
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