PCI IDE Sil680(a) Controller Cards.
[256 byte] By [s-wilsona] at [2007-11-26 13:22:31] 
I have a Sun Blade 100. I want to add faster/larger capacity disks. After a little research and a man page (man uata), I determined sil680(a) based controller cards will work. The HCL has not been much help.Which cards has anyone got to work?
# 1
I have a Sun Blade 100. I want to add faster/larger capacity disks.
Unfortunately even with Sil680A based cards the capacity is still limited to 137GB.
[url=http://forum.java.sun.com/profile.jspa?userID=642228]Martin_Rosenau [/url] did investigate on the issue (LBA48 for SPARC and Sil680A). He mentioned in another forum that Solaris 10 SPARC support for the Sil680A was added with patch 120197-01. The capacity is limited by the driver. On comp.unix.solaris Casper Dik (the author of the Solaris 2.x FAQ) confirmed that Solaris 10 x86 supports LBA48, while SPARC doesn't. Maybe the uata driver has been updated/enhanced in the meantime (the information is from January 2006).
The HCL has not been much help.
That's true, because it doesn't apply to SPARC, only to x86/x64.
Merry Christmas !
Michael
MAALATFTa at 2007-7-7 17:53:37 >
# 2
I received a SIIG SC-PE4B12 which uses the sii0680a (pci1095,680). Installation of the card itself was cake.
Lets go with what we already know. The Blade only has two drive bays.The internal built-in IDE controller is ALi Corporation M5229 IDE. (pci10b9,5229).
Here is where the rubber meets the road. The SC-PE4B12 was only recognized by Solaris as more or less expected. It is only a workable solution when the additional disks do not need to be bootable providing you can find the space for them in the case.
I know this is not exactly news, but getting additional relatively cheap stoage means thinking outside the box literally. I think I have found a better solution. I will be posting a follow up.
s-wilsona at 2007-7-7 17:53:37 >
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