As part of a small home project, I have purchased a SIL3124 hba in hopes
of attaching an external drive/drive enclosure via eSATA.
The host in question is an old Sun Netra T1 currently running
OpenSolaris Nevada b130.
The card in question is this Sil3124 card:
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?item=N82E16816124003
although I did not purchase it from Newegg. I specifically purchased
this card as I have seen specific reports of it working under
Solaris/OpenSolaris distro's on several Solaris mailing lists.
After installing the card, and associated components, I did numerous
things in an attempt to see the single drive attached to my Netra, to
include reconfigure boot, several different devfsadm commands, and
looking for components using scanpci and cfgadm. Although I am not
functional yet (I can't see my drive with format or format -e), I
believe I see my hba with both prtdiag and prtconf. I will post some
additional system information at the bottom of this note.
To cut to the chase, after jumping on Yahoo for some RTFM stuff, it
looks like there is a system package called *SUNWsi3124*. I looked on
my Netra, and it isn't there. I reviewed my OpenSolaris Nevada b130
iso, and it also doesn't have a SUNWsi3124 package.
On a whim, I looked on my Sun Ultra20m2 system (X64 AMD system) which is
also running OpenSolaris Nevada b130, and this package is there. So it
looks like the SUNWsi3124 package is x86/x64 only?
I don't know if this specifically is why my Netra doesn't see my eSATA
drive, but the SUNWsi3124 package is the best lead I have so far.
Thanks for any comments,
Jerry
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# prtdiag
System Configuration: Sun Microsystems sun4u Netra T1 200
(UltraSPARC-IIe 500MHz)
System clock frequency: 100 MHz
Memory size: 2048 Megabytes
========================= CPUs =========================
Run Ecache CPU CPU
Brd CPU Module MHz MB Impl. Mask
--- --- ------- ----- ------ ------ ----
0 0 0 500 0.2 13 1.4
========================= IO Cards =========================
Bus# Freq
Brd Type MHz Slot Name Model
--- ---- ---- ---- --------------------------------
----------------------
0 PCI-1 33 12 ebus
0 PCI-1 33 3 pmu-pci10b9,7101
0 PCI-1 33 3 lomp
0 PCI-1 33 7 isa
0 PCI-1 33 12 network-pci108e,1101 SUNW,pci-eri
0 PCI-1 33 12 usb-pci108e,1103.1
0 PCI-1 33 13 ide-pci10b9,5229
0 PCI-1 33 5 network-pci108e,1101 SUNW,pci-eri
0 PCI-1 33 5 usb-pci108e,1103.1
0 PCI-2 33 8 scsi-glm Symbios,53C896
0 PCI-2 33 8 scsi-glm Symbios,53C896
0 PCI-2 33 5 raid-pci1095,7124 <---------------
No failures found in System
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#
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relevant section from prtconf -v
raid (driver not attached)
Hardware properties:
name='compatible' type=string items=3
value='pci1095,7124' + 'pci1095,3124' +
'pciclass,010400'
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output from prtdev.ksh script, from here
http://bolthole.com/solaris/HCL/
VendorID=0x1095, DeviceID=0x3124
Sub VendorID=0x1095, Sub DeviceID=0x7124
name: 'raid'
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