On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 9:17 PM, Peeyush Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hey guys, please excuse me in advance if I say or ask anything stupid :) > > 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'd appreciate it very much. Sorry for the rambling post, but I wanted to > be detailed from the get-go. Thanks for any input! :) > > PS. On a side note, I'm interested in playing around with SXCE development. > It looks interesting :) > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > I'm still a fan of the marvell based supermicro card. I run two of them in my fileserver. AOC-SAT2-MV8 http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/AOC-SAT2-MV8.cfm It's the same chipset that's in the thumper, and it pretty cheap for an 8-port card. --Tim
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