Howdy Ron,
Right, right - I know I dropped the ball on that one. Sorry, I haven't been
able to log into OpenSolaris lately, and thus haven't been able to actually do
anything useful... (lol, not to rag on OpenSolaris or anything, but it can also
freeze just by logging in... See:
http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=1681)
Ok, so, just to give a refresher of what's going on:
When everything is in it's default state (standard install of OpenSolaris,
standard configuration of ZFS, factory-set BIOS settings, etc.) OpenSolaris
will indeed freeze/hang/lock up, and generally become unusable _without
exception_ on the hardware I've described above. I'm not confident enough to
say that it will _always_ happen on _any_ machine using the 4 drive
configuration of RAID-Z with the pci-ide driver and hardware set-up I've
described thus far, but since I am not alone in experiencing this (see what my
myxiplx experienced on his [different] hardware set-up), I don't think its an
isolated case.
The factory-set BIOS settings for the 4 SATA II ports on my motherboard are
[Native IDE]. I can change this setting from [Native IDE] to [RAID], [Legacy
IDE], and {SATA->AHCI]
Changing the setting to [SATA->AHCI] prevents the machine from booting. There
isn't any extra information that I can give aside from the fact that when I'm
at the "SunOS Release 5.11 Version snv_86 64-bit" screen where the copyright is
listed, the machine hangs right after listing "Hostname: ".
A restart didn't fix anything (that would sometimes fix the login bug I wrote
about a few paragraphs up, but it didn't work for this).
By the way: Is there a way to pull up a text-only interface from the log in
screen (or during the boot process?) without having to log in (or just sit
there reading about "SunOS Release 5.11 Version snv_86 64-bit")? It would be
nice if I could see a bit more information during boot, or if I didn't have to
use gnome if I just wanted to get at the CLI anyways... On some OSes, if you
want to access TTY1 through 6, you only need to press ESC during boot, or CTRL
+ ALT + F1 through F6 (or something similar) during the login screen to gain
access to other non-GUI login screens...
Anyway, after changing the setting back to [Native IDE], the machine boots
fine. And this time, the freeze-on-login bug didn't get me. Now, I know for a
fact this motherboard supports SATA II (see link to manufacturer's website in
earlier post), and that all 4 of these disks are _definitely_ SATA II disks
(see hardware specifications listed in one of my earliest posts), and that I'm
using all the right cables and everything... so, I don't know how to explore
this any further...
Could it be that when I installed OpenSolaris, I was using the pci-ide (or
[Native IDE]) setting on my BIOS, and thus if I were to change it, OpenSolaris
might not know hot to handle that, and might refuse to boot? Or that maybe
OpenSolaris only installed the drivers it thought it would need, and the
stat-ahci one wasn't one of them?
Let me know what you think.
-Todd
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