Port multiplier support in opensolaris

I just saw the following opensolaris putback notice:

PSARC/2009/394 SATA Framework Port Multiplier Support
6422924 sata framework has to support port multipliers
6691950 ahci driver needs to support SIL3726/4726 SATA port multiplier

This is awesome news, and I’m hopeful this will allow me to use one of my external SATA enclosures with OpenSolaris. Time to live upgrade my systems!

matty on August 16, 2009 | Filed Under Solaris Kernel, Solaris Storage

5 Comments

Felipe Alfaro Solana  on August 16th, 2009

Good luck with that!

I had so many problems in the past with eSATA enclosures and PMP support in Linux that I eventually sold the enclosure and bought a 4-drive SATA/SAS system. Not only does it run OpenSolaris nicely but my problems with eSATA and disks vanishing are now left behind.

Felipe Alfaro Solana  on August 16th, 2009

Also, by the way, how/where did you learn about PMP support for OpenSolaris?

max  on August 17th, 2009

Good news! However, I cannot seem to upgrade to this – the development repository for opensolaris is only updated for July, not August!

max  on August 21st, 2009

Felipe, I found out about the support from here:

http://opensolaris.org/os/community/on/flag-days/121-125/

No binary version is available – they haven’t updated the developer repository for nearly 2 months too!

xen  on January 24th, 2012

hi,

i want to use a SiI3124 4 port SATA Card with 2 SiI3726 PortMultipler on OpenSolaris 11 without success.

Any news / drivers / howtos for bring this running ?

products:
1* http://www.span.com/product_info.php?products_id=22245
2* http://www.span.com/product_info.php?products_id=28468

best regards,
Daniel

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