BIOS revs? Any other pci cards in the system?
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 5:16 PM, Christophe Dupre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tim, > the system is a Silicon Mechanics A266; the motherboard is a SuperMicro > H8DM8E-2 > > I tried pluging the Marvell card in both 133MHz PCI-X slots. In one I get a > lockup during install, in the other I get a reset on first boot. > > > > > Tim wrote: > > > > 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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