On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:04:53 -0700 (PDT)
Dan <danjagor at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I want to install solaris on server with Areca Technology - ARC-1110 4-Port
> PCI-X SATA RAID Controller with RAID5. The driver arcmsr is loaded but no
> disk found. No problem on linux which can see the RAID5 as /dev/sda.
>
> on solaris:
>
> SunOS Release 5.10 Version Generic_137138-09 32-bit
> Copyright 1983-2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
> Use is subject to license terms.
> Configuring devices.
>
> arcmsr0:Areca SATA Host Adapter RAID Controller
> arcmsr0:DRIVER VERSION 1.20.00.16 2008-07-31
> arcmsr0:ARECA RAID FIRMWARE VERSION V1.46 2008-08-06
>
>
> 1. Solaris Interactive (default)
> 2. Custom JumpStart
> 3. Solaris Interactive Text (Desktop session)
> 4. Solaris Interactive Text (Console session)
> (Select option 3 or 4 to install a ZFS root file system)
> 5. Apply driver updates
> 6. Single user shell
>
> Enter the number of your choice.
>
> # modinfo |grep arcmsr
> 144 e670d000 846c 194 1 arcmsr (DRIVER VERSION 1.20.00.16 2008-)
> # format
> Searching for disks...done
> No disks found!
>
> any suggestions?
(a) support for Areca's arcmsr driver with Solaris 10 is provided
by Areca directly.
(b) have you tried running "devfsadm -i arcmsr"?
James C. McPherson
--
Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris
Sun Microsystems
http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog
