[OpenIndiana-discuss] E-sata PCIe card problems

[Deano]

As it is an add-on it can still have a BIOS ROM. Likely prints some info on
boot up? iirc Ctrl-M when its displaying takes you into some Marvell boot
settings.
If you can get that and switch it from RAID mode to AHCI (so its just a
JBOD) it should work fine.

I've had problems in the past with SIS driver which took a flash to change
its mode. Hopefully you can do it via software in the cards BIOS.

Good Luck,
Deano

-----Original Message-----
From: Michelle Knight [mailto:michelle at msknight.com] 
Sent: 04 February 2011 21:20
To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana
Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] E-sata PCIe card problems


On Friday 04 February 2011 21:13:39 Alex Smith (K4RNT) wrote:
> The motherboard BIOS setting only controls the integrated SATA
> controller - it won't do *anything* for discrete SATA controllers on
> separate cards.

I thought that was the case; but hey, I don't know everything so I was more 
than willing to give it a try.

The Rocket 622 doesn't have any option to get in to its BIOS settings on
boot, 
and there are no firmware updates on their site.

Unless it is possible to control how OI talks with that card (and I haven't 
found anything in the cfgadm or ahci man pages) then I'm stuck until that
bug 
is fixed.
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