sata controllers: silicon image 3112a chipset
807557Apr 1 2005 — edited Apr 1 2005i've just tried to install solaris 10 on a box with a Silicon Image 3112a PCI SATA adapter and encountered what seems to be (based on googling on the topic) a common problem: this adapter is unsupported under solaris 10 and you encounter a "no disk found" error once solaris tries to install to the hard disk.
during the install, i hit ESC to stop the autoboot and i did a full scan of the attached hardware. the silicon image 3112a comes up as a PCI device, making me think that it might be supported. is there any truth to this suspicion?
one thing i found to be particularly odd about this SATA controller not working is that, according to the disk controller support list for x86 hardware, there exist 2 cards (see http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/data/sol/components/details/801.html and http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/data/sol/components/details/803.html) that use the same chipset (silicon image 3112a) as this device that is purportedly unsupported. i'm pretty familiar with linux and openbsd, so i find it odd that cards with the same chipset can have differential support levels like this.
in this vein, can someone assure me that these "supported" SATA controllers referenced above will work with solaris 10?
i can post more detailed info upon request. thx for reading.