> OpenSolaris could have alot more champions/support if > it could just keep the drivers area going so people > could actually install it in the first place ;-)
Considering how challenging it was to install Solaris 9 on the i86pc platform just a couple of years ago, today's "OpenSolaris generation" has it real easy and nice in terms of hardware support. There are so many drivers in OpenSolaris now, and so much more i86pc hardware is supported, people have no idea. I still remember contacting Juergen about the ATAPI DMA, and him giving me snippets of the dissasembled /kernel/drv/ata driver along with the instructions on which cmp instruction to change from #$55 to #$05 (or was it #$05 to #$55 Juergen? It's been a while.) It's like picnic on Bahamas for you guys. > Any hints on how to get the install to recognise the > disks ... apparently I have the drivers Yes. Configure the drives to be in PATA mode in the BIOS and destroy any RAIDs if they are configured (you'll use ZFS for that, which is far superior to anything they could give you with your PC bucket). Performance loss, if any, if at all, should be negligible, as the disks themselves could never even reach the SATA bus bandwidth, and physical limitations can't give you more than ~72MB/s peaks anyway. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
