On Wed, Feb 23 at 13:16, Mauricio Tavares wrote:
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 ;)
Since SAS adapters can talk to SATA disks, I'd just use a compatible
SAS adapter. It'll cost a few hundred dollars, but likely save you a
lot of effort and frustration.
There are a number of vendors of PCI, PCI-X and PCI-e SAS adapters for
SPARC hardware, based on a quick google.
--eric
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Eric D. Mudama
edmud...@bounceswoosh.org
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