Gday Peeyush, Peeyush Singh wrote: > Anyway, Solaris newbie here. I've built for myself a new file server to > use at home, in which I'm planning on configuring SXCE-89 & ZFS. It's a > Supermicro C2SBX motherboard with a Core2Duo & 4GB DDR3. I have 6x750GB > SATA drives in it connected to the onboard ICH9-R controller (with BIOS > RAID disabled & AHCI enabled). I also have a 160GB SATA drive connected > to a PCI SIIG SC-SA0012-S1 controller, the drive which will be used as > the system drive. My plan is to configure a RAID-Z2 pool on the 6x750 > drives. The system drive is just there for Solaris. I'm also out of > ports to use on the motherboard, hence why I'm using an add-in PCI SATA > controller. > > My problem is that Solaris is not recognizing the system drive during the > DVD install procedure. It sees the 6x750GB onboard drives fine. I > originally used a RocketRAID 1720 SATA controller, which uses its own > HighPoint chipset I believe, and it was a no-go. I went and exchanged > that controller for a SIIG SC-SA0012-S1 controller, which I thought used > a Silicon Integrated (SII) chipset. The install DVD isn't recognizing it > unfortunatly, & now I'm not so sure that it uses a SII chipset. I > checked the HCL, and it only lists a few cards that are reported to work > under SXCE. > > If anyone has any suggestions on either... A) Using a different driver > during the install procedure, or... B) A different, cheap SATA controller
I thought you might have mis-typed Sil (as in Silicon Image) for a moment so I checked on newegg.com - you've got one of these http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816150007, correct? I see a PMC Sierra chip and a SIIG chip. You might be able to make it work with a little hackery to the driver aliases - have a look at this RFE http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6595150 for an example of the data that you need. Based on my quick check of the Sourceforge-hosted PCI Id database, I think you'd find a PCI vendor ID of 131f (for Siig), though you might find that the card has PMC-Sierra's vendor ID of 11f8. If you're using the installer gui, then you can fire up a terminal session and run the update_drv command listed in that RFE's workaround field (appropriately edited of course). Assuming that this works for you, you'll also want to make sure that the device alias is added to your installed system, so you'd use something similar to # update_drv -a -i ' "pcialiasgoeshere" ' -b /a ata Note the "-b /a" - that's "use an alternate base aka root directory" and assuming that the installer is installing onto /a. You'll want to check this (via df is possibly easiest) so you send the updated driver alias to the correct place :-) Hope the above helps. If you could send me a copy of the output from "prtconf -v" for your system with this card installed, I'd be grateful. cheers, James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
