On 23-Jan-07, at 4:51 PM, Bart Smaalders wrote:
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
Disappointing but not completely surprising - "What do you expect,
it's an entry level product, not a high end product."
Still, would be nice for those of us who bought them. And judging by
other posts on this thread it seems just about everyone assumes
hotswap "just works".
--Toby
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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