Thanks for the quick response Andrew. I just moved the DVD (sata1) to the 6th port. I removed the jumper on the 250gb boot drive to put it into sata2 mode. the other 4 are full sata2 already. port 1 is the 250gb drive, then 2-5 are the 4 1500gb drives. I just booted up opensolaris and i now get the same message, for port 0 through 3. It seems like it is seeking the hard drive that I have opensolaris on (the 250gb on port 1) because I can hear it making noise. The computer sat at that screen for about 3 minutes, then rebooted. I am now attempting to reinstall opensolaris again to see what happens. Could it be a driver issue with the AHCI option?
(I am now booting off the opensolaris disc) When I booted up the opensolaris livecd, i get the warning message but only for ports 1 through 3. port 0 is not listed as it was when i booted it up earlier from the hard drive. (waited about 5 minutes for livecd to boot) I went into the terminal, typed format, and I now see it recognizes two discs, 0 and 1 (listed as c4t0d0 and c4t4d0, respectively). I'm going to try to install onto the boot disk again and see how it works out. I am using 2008.05. are there newer builds for this? The ISO i have is about 1 month old. Should I download and try this again? Another option. Would it be better to leave it in IDE mode, then buy a SATA controller to put the other drives on? This would eliminate having to use the 5 and 6 ports. Thanks for your help again, im pretty new at this and can use all the help I can get. I love ubuntu and would use it, but it does not have ZFS support which is what I want in this server. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
