BOOTING AND ACCESSING 6 SATA DRIVES USING AHCI I have installed b48 running 64 bit succesfully on this machine using dual core Intel Woodcrest processors. The hardware supports up to 6 SATA II drives. I have installed 6 Western Digital Raptor drives. Using Parallell ATA mode I can only see 4 drives. Using ZFS the sustained throughput is a disapointing 40MB/s per drive. I was expecting between 60 and 80.
If I configure the BIOS to using AHCI mode the AHCI Bios can see all six drives. Grub appears and displays the nevada boot menu. However the machine resets when I try and boot Solaris. Can I simply tell solaris to use an AHCI SATA device for the root filesystem? If so what command line should I use? This message posted from opensolaris.org
