Re: Booting sparc64 from SSD

[zenxyzzy <zenxyzzy%gmail.com@localhost>]

I've got a sb2000, and I've had excellent luck with scsi-to-sata adaptors.  I've got a DVD burner on one, and a 120Gb sata SSD on the other.  booting works, even though 20MB/sec is a bit pokey for SSD's.   I have a PCI-X 3442X from LSI logic as well, but haven't figured out the magic incantation to allow booting from anything on it - this would be ideal, since it's got a 66mhz 64 bit pci.

--curt

On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Cameron Berkenpas <cam%southtownarcade.com@localhost> wrote:

Hmmm... How are you mounting the drive? I have an sb2000, and there isn't really a place to mount a SATA drive. I assume the 2500 is very similar.

Maybe I should do this on one of my ultra10's... I would think an ulra10 is pretty low power. Anyone know if there are any SATA 6.0 Gbps controllers that would work (probably not)?

-Cameron

On 5/18/14, 5:39 AM, Michael wrote:

Hello,

On Sun, 18 May 2014 14:03:52 +1000
Darren Reed <darrenr%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:

Looking at my Sun SB2500, I'm thinking of ways to make it less noisy and
less power hungry and one of the obvious ones would seem to be replacing
the 10k SCSI drives with some SSD.

The mechanical problem of getting everything mounted I can deal with.

But what I would like some advice on is which PCI cards are well suited
to being mounted inside the SB2500 and that will support booting from SSD?

My sb2500 boots from a CompactFlash card in an adaptor plugged into the
unused onboard ATA port ( the other one is hooked to the DVD drive ).
It's only UDMA33 but just for loading the kernel and a rescue system
that's more than enough. For everything else I have a 500GB SATA-II
disk on a Silicon Image PCI-X card, sitting in one of the 66MHz slots
so there's plenty of bandwidth to go.
The adaptor is ~$5 at monoprice, the SATA card was about $20 or so.
Relevant dmesg bits:

siisata0 at pci0 dev 2 function 0: CMD Technology SiI3124 SATALink (rev. 0x02)
siisata0: interrupting at ivec 700
siisata0: SiI3124, 3.0Gb/s
siisata0: 64-bit 66MHz PCI
atabus2 at siisata0 channel 0
atabus3 at siisata0 channel 1
atabus4 at siisata0 channel 2
atabus5 at siisata0 channel 3
...
aceride0 at pci2 dev 13 function 0: Acer Labs M5229 UDMA IDE Controller (rev. 0xc4)
aceride0: bus-master DMA support present
aceride0: using PIO transfers above 137GB as workaround for 48bit DMA access bug, expect reduced performance
aceride0: primary channel configured to native-PCI mode
aceride0: using ivec 1f98 for native-PCI interrupt
atabus0 at aceride0 channel 0
aceride0: secondary channel configured to native-PCI mode
atabus1 at aceride0 channel 1
...
siisata0 port 0: device present, speed: 3.0Gb/s
wd1 at atabus2 drive 0
wd1: <WDC WD5000AAKX-083CA1>
wd1: drive supports 16-sector PIO transfers, LBA48 addressing
wd1: 465 GB, 969021 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 976773168 sectors
wd1: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 5 (Ultra/100)
wd1(siisata0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 5 (Ultra/100) (using DMA)
...
wd0 at atabus0 drive 0
wd0: <SanDisk SDCFH-008G>
wd0: drive supports 1-sector PIO transfers, LBA48 addressing
wd0: 7629 MB, 15501 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 15625216 sectors
wd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 4 (Ultra/66)
wd0(aceride0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 (Ultra/33) (using DMA)

have fun
Michael