Hello, I am trying out opensolaris mainly for ZFS. I want to build a huge storage server for my family's media from trips over the past many summers. Here is what I have:
Asus M3N78 Pro AMD 5000+ 2.6GHZ 4GB RAM 1 x 250 gb seagate (boot) 4 x 1500 GB seagate (storage pool) 1 x generic DVD-CD My Problem is this: Everything is installed (hardware-wise). The MB has 6 SATA ports. DVD is on #2, boot disk (250GB) is on #1. the 4 storage (zpool) disks are on 3-6. Problem is that the MB only recognizes the last two drives when in either RAID or AHCI mode (other option is IDE). The MB sees and lists all 5 HDDs. When in RAID mode: I boot the opensolaris live dvd, select the first option, then i get a message that says it has to run in console maintenance mode (please enter password). This gets me nowhere, even if i type in opensolaris as the password,im just at a prompt that does nothing. When in AHCI mode: I can boot the disc, and install, but I get errors on 3 of the 4 other discs while booting up saying " ahci_port_reset: port (x) BSY/DRQ still set after device reset port_task_file = 0x180" the port (x) number is whichever port it is getting the error, and is different every time. The discs are all fine, I have run the seatools on them (long test) and they show up on the MB as discs for RAID mode and in the AHCI list. Also, when i boot into the OS, type 'format' in the terminal, only two discs show up as options, not the 6 that should. Does anyone have any clue as to what i should do? Is there something i can type in to boot it up properly without these errors? Or do I need to just leave the MB in IDE mode, use the 4 ports, then buy a SATA PCI card to put the additional drives on? Again, This is my first attempt at solaris or unix for that matter, i've used ubuntu quite a bit and am familiar with linux, but was drawn to solaris for zfs. I would really like to use it over RAID. thanks for any help in advance. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
