Frank Cusack wrote:
yes I am an experienced Solaris admin and know all about devfsadm :-)
and the older disks command.
It doesn't help in this case. I think it's a BIOS thing. Linux and
Windows can't see IDE drives that aren't there at boot time either,
and on Solaris the SATA controller runs in some legacy mode so I guess
that's why you can't see the newly added drive.
Unfortunately all my x2100 hardware is in production and I can't
readily retest this to verify.
-frank
This is exactly the issue; some of the simple SATA drives
are used in PATA compatibility mode. The ide driver doesn't
know a thing about hot anything, so we would need a proper
SATA driver for these chips. Since they work (with the exception
of hot *) it is difficult to prioritize this work above getting
some other piece of hardware working under Solaris. In addition,
switching drivers & bios configs during upgrade is a non-trivial
exercise.
- Bart
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