Krunal Desai wrote:
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 8:38 AM, Mauricio Tavares <raubvo...@gmail.com> wrote:I see what you mean; in http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2008-September/043024.html they claim it is supported by the uata driver. What would you suggest instead? Also, since I have the card already, how about if I try it out?My experience with SPARC is limited, but perhaps the Option ROM/BIOS for that card is intended for x86, and not SPARC? I might thinking of another controller, but this could be the case. You could always try to boot with the card; the worst that'll probably happen is boot hangs before the OS even comes into play.
SPARC won't try to run the BIOS on the card anyway (it will only run OpenFirmware BIOS), but you will have to make sure the card has the non-RAID BIOS so that the PCI class doesn't claim it to be a RAID controller, which will prevent Solaris going anywhere near the card at all. These cards could be bought with either RAID or non-RAID BIOS, but RAID was more common. You can (or could some time back) download the RAID and non-RAID BIOS from Silicon Image and re-flash which also updates the PCI class, and I think you'll need a Windows system to actually flash the BIOS.
You might want to do a google search on "3114 data corruption" too, although it never hit me back when I used the cards.
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