> I could need some help and advice to get a working boot/root disk. > > Technical data: > ASUS M2N32 WS Professional / Phenom 9600 / 8GB > WD Raptor 150GB > Opensolaris NV81 > ... > > This combination didn't work out of the box, but now I'm running a "beta > BIOS" and things seem to be OK, as long as I don't access the boot disk to > much, like trying to create a lu or install additional packages, then the > disk gets "off-line" and unindentified and the system processes that need to > access the disk hangs. > > A fried who have the same MB but with a Athlon X2 processor and is running > with Opensolaris NV71 have a not the same problem. > > When I have been looking for software differences I noticed that on my > friends machine with nv71 the disk driver is cmdk and on my machine with nv81 > I have nv_sata as the disk driver. > > One thing I would like to test but don't know if possible and if so how, is > to force my nv81 to use the cmdk instaed of nv_sata. Is this doable? > > Is there any other thing I could test to narrow down the problem to either a > software or hardware problem? > > If there is a software problem any tips on any w/o that I could test?
check /var/adm/messages or the msgbuf and if you see the following message: Feb 19 18:27:39 nvsata-2 nv_sata: [ID 517869 kern.warning] WARNING: nv_sata inst 0 port 0: excessive interrupt processing. Disabling port int_status=1 clear=0 Then this is the bug you are seeing: 6662881 nv_sata: systems with MCP55 nVidia SATA controller hang during contiguous short writes If so I have a test binary I could send to you. -Marty _______________________________________________ driver-discuss mailing list driver-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/driver-discuss
