On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Eric D. Mudama <edmud...@bounceswoosh.org> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 23 at 13:29, Andrew Gabriel wrote: >> >> Mauricio Tavares wrote: >>> >>> Perhaps a bit off-topic (I asked on the rescue list -- >>> http://web.archiveorange.com/archive/v/OaDWVGdLhxWVWIEabz4F -- and was told >>> to try here), but I am kinda shooting in the dark: I have been finding >>> online scattered and vague info stating that this card can be made to work >>> with a sparc solaris 10 box >>> (http://old.nabble.com/eSATA-or-firewire-in-Solaris-Sparc-system-td27150246.html >>> is the only link I can offer right now). Can anyone confirm or deny that? >> >> 3112/3114 was a very early (possibly the first?) SATA chipset, I think >> aimed for use before SATA drivers had been developed. I would suggest >> looking for something more modern. > > Not only that, the 3112 would do non-sector-aligned FIS transfers for > writes > 15 sectors, which caused all sorts of trouble for the > firmware developers at the disk companies, resulting in numerous > reports of compatibility and performance problems with 3112/3114 > hardware. > > I +1 the suggestion to find something more modern if at all possible. > Oh, just lovely. What would you suggest instead? I mean, besides canning the machine altogether ;)
> --eric > > -- > Eric D. Mudama > edmud...@bounceswoosh.org > > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
