On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:14:27 -0800 (PST) Ancoron Luciferis <chaoslayer at chaoslayer.de> wrote:
> Hi there, > > I have a system here at home that I use as a server for storage and > private development. At work I had the opportunity to try out the > Solaris 10 x86 recently and I now I want it to use at home too. So I > downloaded the latest OpenSolaris Developer Preview 2 and tried to > install it. The Live-System comes up fine (as long as I disable > UltraDMA in BIOS for the IDE DVD-Drive). But when I try to install it > it doesn't recognize my LSI 53C1010 Controller nor the drives > connected to it. As I do not have ATA drives attached to the system I > cannot install anything. > > According to this site > http://blogs.sun.com/dp/entry/what_s_new_in_solaris12 the glm driver > should support my 53C1010-66 controller (that is onboard of an FSC > server board). But it doesn't for me. At work I was told from an > admin that I would need the symhisl driver for such a controller but > it isn't available on the Live-CD. > > So where do I get the driver and how do I add it for installation and > the final system? > > P.S.: I've done a research of the devices using the SMBIOS tool and > it reports my controller as an LSI 53C1000R, but I surely don't have > RAID capabilities on that controller and it really is a 53C1010. > Could that be a reason why the glm driver fails to work although > according to the sun blog entry it should do that? You've got two problems. Firstly, Indiana doesn't include non-free drivers, so you'll need to pull down a copy of SYMhisl from a handy Solaris Express build. Or, if you'd prefer to go with the glm driver (my recommendation), then you need a copy of the SUNWpd package instead. Once you've got it, follow the workaround in http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6667352 53C875 not recognized in 64bit mode which is to add the driver aliases. It should work fine after you've done that. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog
