Re: Booting sparc64 from SSD

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 <[email protected]> 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