[OpenIndiana-discuss] sata port multiplier?

Albert Lee trisk at opensolaris.org
Wed May 25 16:18:35 UTC 2011


On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Ray Arachelian <ray at arachelian.com> wrote:
> Hi can someone recommend a compatible SATA port multiplier?
>
> I've got a 4 port SATA PCI (yes plain old 32 bit PCI) RAID controller in
> JBOD mode for the shared data, and two on board SATA connectors for the
> rpool.  I'd like to add a small SSD to speed up some of my pools a bit,
> but have no ports left. :)
>

Only the ahci driver supports port multipliers to my knowledge.
There's a generic port multiplier specification so the choice of
multiplier should not matter (although mostly Silicon Image chips have
been tested).

-Albert



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