On 05/28/2012 01:12 PM, Ian Collins wrote: > On 05/28/12 11:01 PM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: >> On 05/28/2012 12:59 PM, Ian Collins wrote: >>> On 05/28/12 10:53 PM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: >>>> On 05/28/2012 11:48 AM, Ian Collins wrote: >>>>> On 05/28/12 08:55 PM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: >>>>>> On 05/28/2012 10:48 AM, Ian Collins wrote: >>>>>>> To follow up, the H310 appears to be useless in non-raid mode. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> The drives do show up in Solaris 11 format, but they show up as >>>>>>> unknown, unformatted drives. One oddity is the box has two SATA >>>>>>> SSDs which also show up the card's BIOS, but present OK to >>>>>>> Solaris. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I'd like to re-FLASH the cards, but I don't think Dell would be >>>>>>> too happy with me doing that on an evaluation system... >>>>>> If the drives show up at all, chances are you only need to work >>>>>> around >>>>>> the power-up issue in Dell HDD firmware. >>>>>> >>>>>> Here's what I had to do to get the drives going in my R515: >>>>>> /kernel/drv/sd.conf >>>>>> >>>>>> sd-config-list = "SEAGATE ST3300657SS", "power-condition:false", >>>>>> "SEAGATE ST2000NM0001", "power-condition:false"; >>>>>> >>>>>> (that's for Seagate 300GB 15k SAS and 2TB 7k2 SAS drives, >>>>>> depending on >>>>>> your drive model the strings might differ) >>>>> How would that work when the drive type is unknown (to format)? I >>>>> assumed if sd knows the type, so will format. >>>> Simply take out the drive and have a look at the label. >>> Tricky when the machine is on a different continent! >>> >>> Joking aside, *I* know what the drive is, the OS as far as I can tell >>> doesn't. >> Can you have a look at your /var/adm/messages or dmesg to check whether >> the OS is complaining about "failed to power up" on the relevant drives? >> If yes, then the above fix should work for you, all you need to do is >> determine the exact manufacturer and model to enter into sd.conf and >> reload the driver via "update_drv -vf sd". > > Yes I do see that warning for the non-raid drives. > > The problem is I'm booting from a remote ISO image, so I can't alter > /kernel/drv/sd.conf. > > I'll play more tomorrow, typing on a remote console inside an RDP > session running in a VNC session on a virtual machine is "interesting" :)
I'm not sure about the Solaris 11 installer, but OpenIndiana's installer runs from a ramdisk, so theoretically that should be doable. Other than that you could do it by copying the contents of /kernel from the ISO into a ramdrive and mounting that in place of /kernel and then issue the reload command. In any case, you seem to be having exactly the same issue as I did, so all you need to do is the above magic. -- Saso _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
