[OpenIndiana-discuss] Adaptec series 7

[Saso Kiselkov]

On 8/13/13 2:04 PM, Grant Albitz wrote:
> I checked the HCL and saw that basically no adaptec cards are listed. I was just wondering what it takes to really have an item moved onto the HCL (short of the manufacturer releasing a driver of course). The series 7 cards are nice in that they can support up to 24 devices in hba mode without an expander. Adaptec did release solaris drivers but they are so bad it is as if they didn't even test them. Also you cannot boot from the adaptec series 7 under solaris according to the release notes for the driver. I was just curious if the same would be expected under OI if the drivers were ported over.

Unless Oracle has made many changes to the DDI (I doubt it), the Solaris
driver should load into an Illumos kernel just fine. The behavior should
be identical though, so if the driver had issues on Solaris, chances are
the same issues will persist in Illumos.

Cheers,
-- 
Saso