Driver Enhancements

The following driver features and enhancements have been added to the Solaris 10 10/08 release.

x86: NVIDIA ck804/mcp55 SATA Controller Driver

nv_sata is a SATA HBA driver capable of hot-pluggable functions, for NVIDIA ck804/mcp55 and compatible SATA controllers.

For more information, see the nv_sata(7D) man page.

x86: LSI MegaRAID SAS Controllers Driver

The new LSI mega_sas driver supports the following controllers:

• Dell PERC 5/E, 5/i, 6/E, and 6/i RAID Controllers

• IBM ServeRAID-MR10k SAS/SATA Controller

• LSI MegaRAID SAS 8308ELP, 8344ELP, 84016E, 8408ELP, 8480ELP, 8704ELP, 8704EM2, 8708ELP, 8708EM2, 8880EM2, and 8888ELP Controllers

The mega_sas driver supports the following RAID features:

• RAID levels 0, 1, 5, and 6, and RAID spans 10, 50, and 60

• Online capacity expansion (OCE)

• Online RAID Level Migration (RLM)

• Auto resume after loss of system power during array rebuild or reconstruction (OCE/RLM)

• Configurable stripe size up to 1 Mbyte

• Consistency check for background data integrity

• Patrol read for media scanning and repairing

• 64 logical drive support

• Up to 64TB logical unit number (LUN) support

• Automatic rebuild

• Global and dedicated hot spare support

For more information about the LSI MegaRAID products, see http://www.lsi.com/storage_home/products_home/internal_raid/megaraid_sas/index.html website.

ixgbe Driver

Starting with the Solaris 10 10/08 release, the ixgbe driver is integrated with the Solaris OS. The ixgbe is a 10 Gigabit PCI Express Ethernet driver that supports Intel 82598 10 Gigabit Ethernet controller.

SPARC: Support for aac Driver

Starting with the Solaris 10 10/08 release, the HBA driver for Adaptec Advanced RAID Controller, aac, now supports the SPARC platform.

For more information, see the aac(7D) man page.