[OpenIndiana-discuss] When will AMD XIII CPUs be supported

[Tony Brian Albers]

On 01/22/21 10:29 AM, Volker A. Brandt wrote:
> Hi Chris!
> 
> 
> Hang in there!  I'm sure we'll get it to work eventually.
> 
>> Driver is NOT the problem.
>> I think the only way I'm going to be able to install OI on this, is
>> by plugging my sata drive into a USB adapter, and install it there.
>> Then after installation. Plug the drive back into the sata port on
>> the MB. I thought OI had better sata support. It clearly understands
>> the controller.
>>
>> Well. They say a Picture paints a thousand words:
>> https://bsdos.info/OI/Screenshot-2021-01-22-00-12-55.png
> 
> I don't think it's a matter of lacking "better SATA support".  Several
> Sun servers had the nv_sata chip on board (we have an X2200M2 here), and
> Solaris and thus illumos-based systems have supported that for a long
> time.  It must be some interaction between the installer and your
> system.
> 
> Do test an OmniOS USB installer, just to see if it can find the disks.
> 
> 
> Regards -- Volker
> 

On mine it says that the driver used is ahci, but the again it's an 
intel controller I have.

Could you set your BIOS to display drives as ahci?

I second Volker's idea about trying out OmniOS.

/tony

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