[OpenIndiana-discuss] Sata Port Multiplier

[Albert Lee]

The only driver that has complete SATA port multiplier support is ahci.

-Albert

On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 6:44 AM, Gary Gendel <gary at genashor.com> wrote:

> Mark,
>
> I struggled with a port multiplier in a similar configuration (but older
> chipset) until I finally gave up, bought an 8 port card and bypassed it
> with a lovely sata octopus. :(  I even started hacking at the driver code
> where I found some things that seemed unfinished but was never totally
> successful.  This was back around build 121 so things may be better now.  I
> doubt it because there wasn't much interest in getting this feature
> working.  Sorry I can't give you the magical incantation to get things
> going.
>
> Gary
>
>
> On 05/14/2013 04:07 AM, Mark wrote:
>
>> I have been trying to get the si3124 driver working with port multipliers
>> using the si3826 chipset.
>> The driver source suggests port multipliers are supported.
>>
>> The card's are seen, driver loads, but no disks.
>>
>> The controller ports with multipliers connected show as failed.
>>
>> The server is the Backblaze Pod 3.0 system using Syba PCI Express SATA II
>> 4-Port RAID Controller Card SY-PEX40008 and AC-SAN-5PMBP 5 Bay Port
>> Multiplier Backplane (Sil 3826 Chipset).
>>
>> No issues when I tried running Nas4Free, but FreeBSD doesn't support the
>> application I want to use for the storage.
>>
>>
>> I did try turning on debugging, but as a beginner at driver debugging I'm
>> not sure I achived the desired result and got no useful info from it.
>>
>> Anyone have experience with Sata Port Multipliers and can share a few
>> pointers ?
>>
>> Mark.
>>
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