I'm afraid I don't know the answer to that, sorry. Not sure if anyone does... I think the SCSI HBA driver is the same on SPARC64 as on AMD64, but then Sun had a habit of "improving" control interfaces for Solaris so who knows. I do know under Solaris there is a bioctl-like tool to manage it, for what that's worth. -Adam
On December 28, 2017 1:32:40 PM CST, Jordan Geoghegan <[email protected]> wrote: >Yes I had considered using the onboard hardware raid, but I don't >particularly trust it. I also need the ability to rebuild my arrays >while the machine is online and was hoping to be able to do the 3 disk >RAID1 offered by OpenBSD softraid. Do you know if bioctl(8) is capable >of controlling the onboard raid controller, or will I need to do all >raid rebuilds via the hardware raid bios on the T4? > > >On 12/28/17 08:58, Adam Thompson wrote: >> On 2017-12-26 14:56, Jordan wrote: >>> I've recently gotten my hands on a couple shiny new SPARC T4-1 and >>> T3-1 servers and I was looking to install OpenBSD with a softraid >>> mirror on them for production use. The problem is, is that I end up >>> with this upon following the install instructions and rebooting: >> >> FWIW... >> AFAIK every single T4-1 (probably T3-1s but not certain) is capable >of >> hardware RAID-0/1/10 on the SCSI controller, and that's how they're >> shipped from Sun/Oracle even when running Solaris. I'm not absolutely > >> certain that it's supported by OpenBSD, but I do recall seeing that >it >> could be used as-is when I was investigating running OpenBSD on my >> T-series gear. There's Oracle documentation on how to access the >> on-card firmware to set up and manage the RAID set in a pre-OS >situation. >> >> YMMV. Unfortunately, both of mine are still running Solaris so I >> can't confirm right now. >> -Adam -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
