Let's keep this thread on the help list. First this doesn't sound like
a Solaris issue, but rather an interaction between your drives and
motherboard.

One route to pursue is to find out what controller they are using and
see if you can track anything that way.

Please let us know what SuperMicro has to say.

Good luck,
Brian

On 8/21/07, Richard <rthorntn at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have a Supermicro PDSGE with an AMI BIOS, I have UFS boot disk connected 
> via IDE and a ZFS pool comprising 4 x 400GB entire disks on the SATA ports.
>
> After I created the ZFS pool the BIOS freezes after the SATA disks are 
> detected, this is because the EFI label is not recognised by the BIOS, 
> removing the disks allows the system to boot.
>
> Is there a workaround that I can use, I read you could set the SATA devices 
> in the BIOS to "None", will Solaris still see the disks if I do this?
>
> I would like to be able to boot and have a ZFS pool using the entire disks.
>
> I have emailed Supermicro for help also.
>
> Thanks for your time.
>
> Kind Regards
> Richard
>
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