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

[Lou Picciano]

Dan, 


To make things a bit more complicated (!): We've had very good luck with our BIOS settings* at AHCI and 'Native' IDE mode enabled; these settings are for the P67A Intel controller on-board; these settings get us Command Queuing and HotPlug capabilities. They also allow pass-through of HDD SMART capabilities, for compatibility with smartctl. 


FWIW, I am aware of no driver available for the Marvell 88SE9128 controller on this mobo; we don't use it. 


Lou Picciano 


*this is on a GigaByte GA-P67A-UD7-B3 

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Swartzendruber" <dswartz at druber.com> 
To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> 
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 12:58:09 PM 
Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Need a PCI e-sata card for OI151a 

On 3/27/2012 12:51 PM, Russell Hansen wrote: 
> A quick glance at the motherboard manual for what you have indicates the probability that your on-board SATA ports aren't using AHCI. Likely some compatibility mode meant for those poor souls that may have needed Win9x when that BIOS was basically coded. 
> 
> http://www.supermicro.com/manuals/motherboard/3000/MNL-0889.pdf 
> Page 4-4 
> 
> In the BIOS check to see if the SATA Controller Mode is set to Compatibile. You will need to change it to Enhanced. (*Note: The Enhanced mode is supported by the Windows 2000 OS or a later version. :-p ) 
> 
> From there the SATA RAID mode should default to Disabled. The SATA AHCI mode you will want to change to Enabled. 
> 
> AHCI mode should give you hot-swap capabilities as well as let you use your SSD with some sanity. 
> 
Must be a bios bug then. I am pretty sure (will confirm tonite) that 
the sata controller is set to enhanced. My other mobo x9scl-f that runs 
esxi has TWO settings for each port: one for whether to enable AHCI and 
one for whether to enable hot plug. I kid you not. If I can't figure 
this out, I may just get the $14 rosewill sil card - it's only for 
occasional backup to a WD Blue consumer sata drive. 

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