Turns out Solaris nv_44 is only finding the first 4 SATA controllers on my motherboard. The BIOS sees the drives on the next two (6 SATA on the motherboard), but Solaris doesn't. Any chance I can configure around this? Seems like supporting 4 ought to be just a few parameters away from supporting 6. I have no clue how Solaris device identification, matching to drivers, and driver configuration happens.
Here's the system-report from the Solaris 10 install-test utility, in hopes it defines what's on my motherboard in sufficient detail for somebody to actually answer this question :0). If the tweaks would let me do hot-swap on these devices I'd be even more excited, they're in a Chenbro hot-swap chassis but Solaris doesn't seem to support hot-swap on this controller, sadly. Motherboard is an Asus M2N-SLE Deluxe. Workaround: I guess the workaround is to get a 4-port card to support the last 4 hot-swap bays, and get one that actually supports hot-swap, and hope those are the drives that fail :-). But I'm not really interested in spending *more* money to try to get this to work with Solaris without an ironclad guaranty at this point. Vendor Device: Type Name Solaris Driver: 32BIT 64BIT -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- nVidia Corpora... U MCP55 USB Controller Y Y nVidia Corpora... U MCP55 USB Controller Y Y nVidia Corpora... S MCP55 IDE Y Y nVidia Corpora... S MCP55 SATA Controller Y Y Texas Instruments F TSB43AB22/A IEEE-1394a-2000 Controlle... Y Y nVidia Corpora... M MCP55 High Definition Audio N N nVidia Corpora... N MCP55 Ethernet N N JMicron Techno... S JMicron 20360/20363 AHCI Controller Y Y nVidia Corpora... V Unknown device Y Y Driver Notes: Y - Solaris Driver Found; T - Third Party Driver; N - No Solaris Driver Device Types: V - Video; N - Network; S - Storage; M - Multimedia; U - USB; F - Firewire; Notes: This system is likely to install Solaris 10 6/06. Check the list above for driver availability for identified devices. -- David Dyer-Bennet, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/> RKBA: <http://www.dd-b.net/carry/> Pics: <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/> Dragaera/Steven Brust: <http://dragaera.info/> _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list [email protected]
