On Dec 17, 2010, at 11:29 AM, Richard Jacobsen wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm getting a very strange problem with a recent OpenSolaris b134 install.
>
> System is:
> Supermicro X5DP8-G2 BIOS 1.6a
> 2x Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 1.0b
> 11 Seagate Barracuda 1TB ES.2 ST31000340NS drives
>
> If I have any of the 11 1TB Seagate drives plugged into the controller, the
> AOC-SAT2-MV8 BIOS appears to detect them just fine, but I get the following
> problems:
>
> 1. Grub takes a long time to findroot
In cases where I've seen this, the cause was some sort of firmware bug
or BIOS/firmware configuration. Some good configuration choices are:
1. disable power management
2. disable plug-n-play
3. set AHCI/IDE mode to AHCI
4. disable system controller (iDRAC, iLO, etc) over LAN
HTH,
-- richard
> 2. Once Grub finally finds the OS disk, OpenSolaris sits and hangs
> at the splash screen (verbose doesn't even work)
>
> If I boot the system without any of these drives attached and then attach
> one, I get "Device failed to power up", and I can't configure them with
> cfgadm or use them to create a pool.
>
> Every other disk I've tried in the box appears to work perfectly fine, so it
> appears to only be these ES.2s which are having a problem.
>
> Anyone have any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Richard
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