Hi All!
I've only been on the list for a couple months and am therefore relatively new to OpenIndiana and other OpenSolaris successors, though I have a long history with Solaris. I asked on the list on May 20th about recommendations for a desktop workstation and received a lot of really good responses: http://openindiana.org/pipermail/openindiana-discuss/2013-May/012815.html Because my coworkers were all going with the Dell T3600, I did as well. I've booted OI 151a7 from the Live USB and it recognizes all the hardware except the USB 3 controller (as expected), the Intel Management Engine Interface (MEI) (no big deal), and the PERC H310 controller (also expected). As Udo mentioned in the earlier post he referenced: http://openindiana.org/pipermail/openindiana-discuss/2013-May/012815.html The PERC H310 doesn't have a driver in oi151a7. oi151a7 reports it as an LSI Falcon 2008. I could rip out the PERC if necessary, but I wanted to explore all options before doing that. Udo mentions an imr_sas driver, which I have been unable to find. There's an interesting blog post here: http://www.byte.nl/blog/how-to-install-opensolaris-openindiana-on-an-m1015-lsi-9240-raid-controller/ about the imr_sas driver and an older version of OI, but it appears that LSI no longer provides Solaris drivers for their MegaRaid cards, as most pages involving Solaris just redirect to Oracle. Rob Johnson asked about reflashing the PERC H310 back in January: http://openindiana.org/pipermail/openindiana-discuss/2013-January/011167.html Others have asked about the same thing on the ZFS list, e.g. http://thr3ads.net/zfs-discuss/2013/01/2167300-Has-anyone-used-a-Dell-with-a-PERC-H310 All of that background brings me to the questions. - What's the status of the PERC H310 in OI (and/or Illumos)? Is there a driver that will be included in oi151a8? - Assuming there isn't a Live (devel) release of oi151a8 that's imminent, and assuming someone can provide me the clues necessary to find the imr_sas driver, is it relatively simple to load updated drivers with the oi151a7 Live release, so I can actually install on the hard drives that are behind the PERC right now? The blog post about installing on the lsi 9240 looked pretty straightforward, the only missing parts were the bitrot related to LSI's web site and the actual driver. - Barring an actual PERC H310 driver and oi151a8 pre-release, can anyone provide some guidance on cross-flashing the PERC with the appropriate LSI firmware? Is that process (relatively) easily reversible? Thanks for any insight people can provide. PS: Last time I installed Solaris was for 10/08 via the text-based installer. I had never seen any of the updates or improvements from OpenSolaris and successors until I booted into OI151a7. I accidentally booted the screen-reader version and my coworkers were pretty amused that something Solaris-ish was talking to me right out of the box. I personally was shocked at how simple the device driver update GUI made it to see what drivers were missing. I'm definitely looking forward to getting OI running! Thanks, Tim -- Tim Mooney tim.moo...@ndsu.edu Enterprise Computing & Infrastructure 701-231-1076 (Voice) Room 242-J6, IACC Building 701-231-8541 (Fax) North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105-5164 _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss