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From: AZ Nomad on 3 Oct 2009 13:18
The current version of solaris 10, sol-10-u7-ga-x86-dvd, can't
handle the sil3132 SATA controller. It used to work (6/7?) with an added
line in /etc/driver_aliases. Adding the line to sol10 now causes it to
crash.

About two years ago I switched to open solaris which works perfectly
with the hardware out of the box. I occasionally try solaris 10 as I
wouldn't mind switching back.

I tried to report my finding to the HCL, but they wanted more
information from the crash and I wasn't willing to wipe my system just
to retry an OS that doesn't work. This is my report for google to
archive.
From: Daniel Rock on 6 Oct 2009 06:58
AZ Nomad <aznomad.3(a)premoveobthisox.com> wrote:
> The current version of solaris 10, sol-10-u7-ga-x86-dvd, can't
> handle the sil3132 SATA controller. It used to work (6/7?) with an added
> line in /etc/driver_aliases. Adding the line to sol10 now causes it to
> crash.

I downloaded the si3124 sources from the OpenSolaris repository, changed
a few lines, recompiled the driver on Solaris 10 and are now using two
SiI3132 for almost two years with no problems so far.

--
Daniel
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