This is interesting - I run on Supermicro Intel boards as well.

You likely have to enable AHCI in the BIOS.  I'm using the Hardware
Compatibility Test Suite right now on a machine to see how it
performs.

Check dumpadm also to make sure that you have a dump device configured
- and you can increase log verbosity in /etc/syslog.conf

On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Richard Hyde <rhyde at hydenetworks.com> wrote:
> I have a couple of OpenSolaris 2008.11 machines set up as cluster nodes in a 
> Glassfish V2 cluster. Occasionally, if I offline an instance via the cluster 
> master admin interface the machine will just go totally dark. No ping, 
> nothing. When I bring them back up after hard reboot there will be no 
> indication of the cause in /var/adm/messages or in the Glassfish instance 
> logs.
>
> The machines are running OEM Intel motherboards via SuperMicro. 16GB RAM, 
> 2xdrives in a ZFS mirror. Unfortuantly the Intel AHCI chipset doesn't seem to 
> be well supported as it's running in IDE mode.
>
> Any suggesstions on what do add to the setup to help diagnostics?
>
> Thanks.
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