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On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 04:14:32PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 11:02:17PM -0500, Rafal Boni wrote:
> > I haven't been following the lists much (if at all) in quite a while, so
> > apologies if this is has a well-known answer... I'd like to upgrade my
> > SunFire V100 from it's current configuration (couple of software
> > mirrored 100GB drives on a Silicon Image PATA controller) to SATA and
> > potentially an external enclosure for the disks (I'm tired of having to
> > keep the cover off the box because the second disk isn't mounted to
> > anything and I don't have a second bracket).
> >=20
> > Any suggestions for what SATA with external connectivity options work
> > well with sparc64 and can be shoved in a V100?
>=20
> Promise SATA adapters should work in a sparc64.

Perhaps the TX4302 (only one I can find with e-SATA).
Seems it might be a PDC40718.

Are satalink(4)s also an option?

If the driver was in NetBSD, and was more mature, I'd probably
recommend a SiI3124-based card.  That or a PCI/PCI-X AHCI, which
AFAICT doesn't exist.  This mostly because they could eventually
support port multipliers and NCQ.  Of course OFW doesn't grok
these controllers, like it can a pciide(4)-compatible controller.

	Jonathan Kollasch

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