Solaris 10 X86 (releases 8/07 and 10/8) for SATA support??

as400 · 03-01-2009, 12:55 AM

Hi there,

I was wondering if these releases for Solaris 10 supports SATA drives?

Because for instance, I had few issues were Windows XP was not supported on SATA drivers, so I had to download the right drivers for the SATA.

Any issues on this as well for Solaris 10 on newer PCs with SATA drives?

Thanks in advance.

Infasoft · 03-01-2009, 08:36 AM

Yes there actually is. i use a SATA drive and it works just fine.

Randux · 03-01-2009, 10:37 AM

I don't think the drivers are 100% in terms of error handling.

I have 3 SATA II drives in my Solaris box, all new hardware. I had a bad SATA cable on my DVD drive and when I copied big files from a DVD to my ZFS fs, errors on the DVD drive are counted as HD errors in the ZFS pool. After I replaced the cable this stopped happening. I saw other problems as well, during installation sometimes Solaris seems to get confused between device numbers (still mapping SATA drives as IDE@) and had many problems installing Grub. I think there's more work to do here.

as400 · 03-03-2009, 12:14 AM

Yes there actually is. i use a SATA drive and it works just fine.

What do mean by this?? Yes would mean it WILL NOT work or would work?

I just want to avoid having these issues since one of my friend's PC came with Windows Vista on it, and when we tried to install Windows XP, it would not support the SATA drivers for it.
Them we ended up having to slipstream or integrate the SATA drivers into the XP CD...

I want to avoid having these issues with Solaris.

So, can you just tell me what are the odds of Solaris 10 NOT able to recognize these SATAs on newer PCs???

I kindly thank you.

jlliagre · 03-03-2009, 02:15 AM

How do you expect an OS to magically support a newer incompatible device without installing a new driver ?

as400 · 03-03-2009, 11:33 AM

If I run the Hardware Detection Tool, am I be able to see if it will support the SATA drive on the new PC?

jlliagre · 03-03-2009, 11:45 AM

Are you sure you had experienced problems with supporting new SATA drives (vs a new SATA controller) ?

The detection tool will detect "plug and play" devices by their manufacturer/device ids. SATA drives have no IDs, their controller do.

as400 · 03-05-2009, 11:16 AM

Well, its not worth worrying about it now...since I dont own a new PC yet...Just getting prepared.

Thanks.

I just have to wait and find out.