Forgive me for being a bit wooly with this explanation (I've only recently moved over from Windows), but changing disk mode from IDE to SATA may well not work without a re-install, or at the very least messing around with boot settings. I've seen many systems which list SATA disks in front of IDE ones, so you changing the drives to SATA may now mean that instead of your OS being installed on drive 0, and your data on drive 1, you now have the data on drive 0 and the OS on drive 1.
You'll get through the first part of the boot process fine, but the second stage is where you usually have problems which sounds like what's happening to you. Unfortunately swapping hard disk controllers (which is what you're doing here) isn't as simple as just making the change and rebooting, and that would be just as true in Windows. I do think some solaris drivers need a bit of work, but I suspect the standard SATA ones are pretty good, so there is a fair chance that you'll find hot plug works ok in SATA mode. Ultimately however you're trying to get enterprise kinds of performance out of consumer kit, and no matter how good Solaris and ZFS are, they can't guarantee to work with that. I used to have the same opinion as you, but I'm starting to see now that ZFS isn't quite an exact match for traditional raid controllers. It's close, but you do need to think about the hardware too and make sure that can definately cope with what you're wanting to do. I think the sales literature is a little misleading in that sense. Ross This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
