Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 09:42:41 -0500 (CDT) From: R J <rjohanne@piper.hamline.edu> To: spawk <spawk@acm.poly.edu> Cc: Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Sil3512 (sii, SATA) driver on Sun Ultra60/blade 1000 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0910020939340.3591@wnk> In-Reply-To: <4AC54A1F.7020508@acm.poly.edu> References: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0909240953130.25335@wnk> <4ABB971E.5040709@FreeBSD.org> <Pine.LNX.4.64.0910011349590.15420@wnk> <4AC515C5.3030504@FreeBSD.org> <4AC54A1F.7020508@acm.poly.edu>
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Boris, We are talking about PCI sata controllers working in a sparc64 system. The cards in particular, Sil3512 and Sil3124 are PCI cards. Alex, would remote access to a sparc64 be enough for you test on? We could do some coordinations ofcourse. Robert On Thu, 1 Oct 2009, spawk wrote: > Alexander Motin wrote: >> R J wrote: >> >>>> Have you tried newer SiI3124/3132 cards family with new siis(4) or old >>>> ata(4) driver? >>>> >>> I have tried the Sil3124, but not with the new siis driver. I tried it >>> with the ata driver; I had the card with 4 ports, and when I tried it >>> with ata, it was exhibiting the same behaviour as the Sil3512 card in >>> the ultra 60. >>> >>> But the Sil3124 card died, and not sure how that happened. I still have >>> it, but the system doesn't see it atall. >>> >>> How can I help? I am willing to do testing utilizing the Sil3512 that I >>> have, and if I can get a hold of a working Sil3124, I can test with that >>> too. I could probably provide remote access to a sparc64 box for >>> testing, but I will have to check on that. >>> >>> Let me know how I can help. >>> >> >> It would be nice to have some big-endian system for testing. >> >> > I can definitely provide remote access to a sparc64 machine. The ones I have > are PCI, though. Hopefully there are PCI variants of the hardware you're > testing. > > -Boris > >
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