[zfs-discuss] Dell PERC H200: drive failed to power up

2012-05-16 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
Hi, I'm getting weird errors while trying to install openindiana 151a on a Dell R715 with a PERC H200 (based on an LSI SAS 2008). Any time the OS tries to access the drives (for whatever reason), I get this dumped into syslog: genunix: WARNING: Device

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dell PERC H200: drive failed to power up

2012-05-16 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 05/16/2012 09:45 AM, Koopmann, Jan-Peter wrote: Hi, are those DELL branded WD disks? DELL tends to manipulate the firmware of the drives so that power handling with Solaris fails. If this is the case here: Easiest way to make it work is to modify /kernel/drv/sd.conf and add an entry

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dell PERC H200: drive failed to power up

2012-05-16 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 05/16/2012 09:45 AM, Koopmann, Jan-Peter wrote: Hi, are those DELL branded WD disks? DELL tends to manipulate the firmware of the drives so that power handling with Solaris fails. If this is the case here: Easiest way to make it work is to modify /kernel/drv/sd.conf and add an entry

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dell PERC H200: drive failed to power up

2012-05-16 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 05/16/2012 10:17 AM, Koopmann, Jan-Peter wrote: One thing came up while trying this - I'm on a text install image system, so my / is a ramdisk. Any ideas how I can change the sd.conf on the USB disk or reload the driver configuration on the fly? I tried looking for the file on the USB