Re: [osol-discuss] HELP!! SATA 6G controller for OSOL

2010-08-10 Thread valrh...@gmail.com
No reason to apologize; you guys have been SO helpful to me, getting started with OpenSolaris over the past year. In the event, the system is working fine. I have a 8-port Dell SAS 6i/R controller, but the default cable set for this machine only has six connectors (four on channel 0, and two on

Re: [osol-discuss] HELP!! SATA 6G controller for OSOL

2010-07-22 Thread Andre Lue
Sorry Valrhona. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] HELP!! SATA 6G controller for OSOL

2010-07-22 Thread valrh...@gmail.com
So I'm throwing up the white flag on this one. My SAS controller (Dell SAS 6i/R) works just fine, but I was using the recommended cables for the six drives in my system (which has four SATA/SAS connectors on one channel, but only two on the other). Since it has two of the special SFF(?) connecto

Re: [osol-discuss] HELP!! SATA 6G controller for OSOL

2010-07-21 Thread Valrhona
I"m running this in a Dell PowerEdge T410, 2 GHz Xeon (Core i7) with 8 GB of RAM. There are six 2TB drives attached to a Dell SAS 6i/R card, which are recognized just fine. I wanted to add the the SSD as an L2ARC, and am using the same PCIe SATA card that is running the CD-ROM drive (which boots EO

Re: [osol-discuss] HELP!! SATA 6G controller for OSOL

2010-07-21 Thread valrh...@gmail.com
@dre2kse: I can't get either of these cards to work at all. I tried the suggestion to boot the LiveCD, and it shows the AHCI driver attached to the SATA controller. When I run format, I don't see the drive attached to the card. I've tried this with an SSD and a regular HD, switched all the cabl

Re: [osol-discuss] HELP!! SATA 6G controller for OSOL

2010-07-21 Thread Matthias Pfützner
Try scanpci or a prtconf -pv You might even try to scan the /var/adm/messages file... ;-) Matthias You (valrh...@gmail.com) wrote: > Thanks for the suggestion. > > Any idea how to check the specific chipset number? > > At bootup, the BIOS says: 88SE91xx, and doesn't

Re: [osol-discuss] HELP!! SATA 6G controller for OSOL

2010-07-21 Thread valrh...@gmail.com
Thanks for the suggestion. Any idea how to check the specific chipset number? At bootup, the BIOS says: 88SE91xx, and doesn't give the last couple of numbers. I've tried to look within OSOL itself, say using the device driver manager on the LiveCD, but it just says SATA controller. -- This mes

Re: [osol-discuss] HELP!! SATA 6G controller for OSOL

2010-07-20 Thread Andre Lue
Hi Valrhona, If I follow you correctly the ASUS U3S6 is the troublesome card, and It contains the CD and the SSD, correct? Pussler is, you used the CD to boot and install EON from cdrom on this same controller, correct? If so, can you test only a regular drive on this controller (nothing else

Re: [osol-discuss] HELP!! SATA 6G controller for OSOL

2010-07-20 Thread Edward Martinez
> So I've tried both the ASUS U3S6, and the Koutech > IO-PESA-A230R, recommended by the helpful blog: > > http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=10 > > In BOTH cases, the SSD appears in the card's BIOS > screen at bootup, so that the card sees it and > recognizes it properly. > > I'm running EON 0.60 (SNV13

Re: [osol-discuss] HELP!! SATA 6G controller for OSOL

2010-07-20 Thread Andre Lue
You can try booting from the OSOL 134 live cd and see if it finds a suitable driver. We would then be able to identify the driver needed to add to EON. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@

Re: [osol-discuss] HELP!! SATA 6G controller for OSOL

2010-07-20 Thread Brandon High
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 2:15 PM, valrh...@gmail.com wrote: > I don't know enough about either of these cards to know which driver the > Marvell chip would use, or where to go get it. Can anyone point me in the > right direction? I'm pretty sure that it should use the AHCI driver. You may need t

Re: [osol-discuss] HELP!! SATA 6G controller for OSOL

2010-07-20 Thread valrh...@gmail.com
Thanks for the question. Indeed, I can see the SSD if I plug it into the motherboard controller, but it's a retarded one that needs Windows for AHCI; the only way for OpenSolaris or Linux to recognize is if I run in the old ATA mode, which is really slow. I don't know enough about either of the

Re: [osol-discuss] HELP!! SATA 6G controller for OSOL

2010-07-20 Thread valrh...@gmail.com
I'm running this in a Dell PowerEdge T410, 2 GHz Xeon (Core i7) with 8 GB of RAM. There are six 2TB drives attached to a Dell SAS 6i/R card, which are recognized just fine. I wanted to add the the SSD as an L2ARC, and am using the same PCIe SATA card that is running the CD-ROM drive (which boots

Re: [osol-discuss] HELP!! SATA 6G controller for OSOL

2010-07-20 Thread Andre Lue
Hi Valrhona, Sounds like the driver for IO-PESA-A230R sata card is missing. Do you know which drivers it needs? Does the SSD show up on any of the motherboard sata ports? (non PESA card ports) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolari

Re: [osol-discuss] HELP!! SATA 6G controller for OSOL

2010-07-20 Thread Andre Lue
Hi Valrhona, Sounds like the driver for IO-PESA-A230R sata card is missing. Do you know which drivers it needs? Does the SSD show up on any of the motherboard sata ports? (non PESA card ports) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolari

Re: [osol-discuss] HELP!! SATA 6G controller for OSOL

2010-07-20 Thread Matthias Pfützner
What does cfgadm report? What does prtconf -D report? -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: valrh...@gmail.com An: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org Gesendet: 20.7.'10, 21:39 So I've tried both the ASUS U3S6, and the Koutech IO-PESA-A230R, recommended by the helpful blog: http://blog.z

[osol-discuss] HELP!! SATA 6G controller for OSOL

2010-07-20 Thread valrh...@gmail.com
So I've tried both the ASUS U3S6, and the Koutech IO-PESA-A230R, recommended by the helpful blog: http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=10 In BOTH cases, the SSD appears in the card's BIOS screen at bootup, so that the card sees it and recognizes it properly. I'm running EON 0.60 (SNV130), and once I log