[OpenIndiana-discuss] Need a PCI e-sata card for OI151a

[Gary Gendel]

Dan,

I can't give you specifics, but I went through a lot of pain early on 
until I found cards from LSI that worked really well.  At the time, the 
best supported chipset was from Marvell.  The Silicon Image chipsets 
worked unreliably and needed firmware reflashing to turn off RAID 
support.  I contributed to a few fixes in the Silicon Image drivers, but 
the code was not completely finished the last time I looked.  I would 
stay away from sata multiplexers.  Since then, I believe that the Intel 
chipset has gotten the most attention but I have never tried them.

Gary

On 3/27/12 9:10 AM, Dan Swartzendruber wrote:
> Here's my situation: m1015 with 6 sata drives for pool tank.  7th port has
> 15K 73GB SAS drive as cache device.  8th port currently connected to e-sata
> connector on front panel of case for monthly backups.  160GB sata drive on
> one of the 4 motherboard sata ports (supermicro pdsmi+).  I have a 64GB
> crucial m4 I want to use as a log device, but plugging it into the
> motherboard seems to only yield sata1 speed (in addition to the fact that OI
> apparently refuses to even go to the grub menu and just hangs - sigh...)
> Even when I didn't have that issue (e.g. just switched from nexenta back to
> OI), I discovered the motherboard ports apparently do NOT support hot-plug,
> so switching the M4 and the e-sata connector is a no-go (unless I want to
> have to boot with the e-sata drive plugged in and turned on - LOL).  My
> motherboard only has one pcie slot (x8) which is where the m1015 resides.
> So the plan is to get a pci card with e-sata connector.  I've found a couple
> of cheap rosewill cards on newegg, that indicate the sil3512 chipset, but
> I'm having trouble finding out if that is supported or not.  Any help
> appreciated!
>
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