ok, well this was part of the problem. I disabled the Sata IDE combined mode and reinstalled opensolaris (i tried to just disable it but osol wouldn't boot)
now the drive connected to the SSD DOES show up in cfgadm so it seems to be in sata mode...but the drives connected to the reverse breakout cable still don't show up. On the bright side, the drives connected to my SAS cards (through the same backpane, with a standard sff-8087 to sff-8087 cable) DO show up. SOOOO, now i just need to figure out why these 4 drives aren't showing up. (my case is the norco RPC-4220, i thought i'd be ok with 2 SAS cards (8 sata ports each) and then 4 of the onboard ports using the reverse breakout cable.....something must be wrong with the cable....i'll test the 2 drives connected directly in a bit....i have to take everything appart to do that) On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Brandon High <bh...@freaks.com> wrote: > On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Thomas Burgess <wonsl...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > In the bios i can select from: > > Native IDE > > AMD_AHCI > > This is probably what you want. AHCI is supposed to be chipset agnostic. > > > I also have an option called "Sate IDE combined mode" > > See if there's anything in the docs about what this actually does. You > might need it to use the PATA port, but it could be what's messing > things up. If you can't use the cdrom, maybe install from a thumb > drive or usb crdrom. (My ASUS M2N-LR board refuses to boot from a > thumb drive. Likewise with a friend's Supermicro Intel board. Both > work fine from a usb cdrom.) > > > I think this may be my problem...i had this enabled, because i thought i > > needed it in order to use both sata and ide....i think now it's something > > else. > > I think so. It makes the first 4 ports look like IDE drives (two > channels, two drives per channel) and the remaining BIOS RAID or AHCI. > > -B > > -- > Brandon High : bh...@freaks.com >
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