On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Christophe Dupre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all, > based on comments on this list, I bought a new server with 8 SATA bays > and an AOC-SAT2-MV8 SATA controller. I them fired up a jumpstart of > Solaris 10 5/08 of the server. Install runs through perfectly, with a > SVM mirror of / and swap on the first two disks. But during the first > boot, I get the Solaris 10 kernel banner then the server resets. > > If I take out the Marvell card, connect the boot disks to the NVidia > MCP55 motherboard SATA controller, the server intalls fine and completes > its first reboot. > > I realise my issue has nothing to do with ZFS, but I'm posting here > since I heard of the controller here and I'm pretty sure some on this > list are using it. > > My boss is starting to think that going for a RAID card would have been > better, as the server would already be up and running and in production, > so I'm willing to listen to any advice. > > Thanks, > Christophe Dupre > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > I've got several systems running the same setup. It's definitely not the card. What motherboard are you running? What sort of PCI slot is it installed in? Sounds to me like a pci resource issue.
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