Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> writes: > I've already bought a sil3114 chip card off ebay ($20 us) yesterday so > I'll see how I fare on that first. I'm told it will recognize sata II > if you flash it to latest bios update. I'm not sure but that may also > be possible with the card I'm having the trouble with. (Adaptec > 1205sa) which is Sil3112a chip. > > I'll have to install it on a windows machine... since my Osol server > has no floppy drive. Hehe, I plan to open up my wifes machine to do > it. (Shes gone for the day or the fight would be on)
I quite being a lazy puke, braved up and installed the Adaptec 1205sa on a windows machine and updated the bios. Apparently its either in two places on the chip or each on its own chip, but it took both `base BIOS' and `sata_raid BIOS', so a two part flash. I didn't really think it would help, mostly why I didn't do that sooner. Also didn't really know how. But cutting to the chase here, it worked just fine after putting it back in the OSOL box, resilvering of one 200gb from the old mirror is in progress as I write. No jumpers needed, it just works. Some had said I might need to use a jumper to make the disk 1.5 gb instead of 3.0gb but apparently the Adaptec 1205sa can do that with out a jumper. I did jump the gun and order a Sil3114 from ebay for $20 + $10 shipping but it won't hurt to have a backup, and I may need the extra ports at some point. Anyway, I'm a happy camper and didn't even get another beating from my wife. . . well, at least not yet... _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
