Just chipping in with my 2c, it might not be a great help though. First of all, it sounds to me like this might be a hardware fault. That motherboard and controller combination are listed on Sun's HCL so should work fine: http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/data/systems/details/8454.html
The first thing I would ask is whether you need your boot drives powered off that card? Since you're using mirroring, I assume those two disks won't be used for your ZFS pool, so why not just boot from disks attached to the motherboard controller, and save the AOC-SAT2-MV8 for your main zpool? That will let you boot Solaris and test the SATA hardware from within Solaris, and should also give slightly better performance when live. Now, if you still get crashes using that configuration while trying to access the drives or create your zfs pool, I would definately suspect faulty hardware. It could be the SATA controller, or anything else in there if it's all new. However, for troubleshooting, before you did that I'd personally do the following first, making use of the fact that you have a guaranteed test for this fault right now: 1. Strip down to a bare system, see if you can install on the SATA card. By bare system I mean just have PSU, 1 x CPU, 2 x memory chips, SATA card, 1 x hard disk. I'd even disconnect front panel LED's and everything but the power switch. Even physically disconnect extra hard drives from the PSU. It sounds overkill, but you wouldn't believe some of the crazy faults I've seen over the years. 2. If that works, begin adding components. Start with another two memory chips, then if they work fine, add the second CPU if you have one. If it doesn't work with a bare system, maybe try another two memory chips, but at that point I'd suspect more serious problems, with either the motherboard or SATA controller. First check there's nothing shorting under the motherboard, and then speak to your supplier about getting replacement parts. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
