Setup: Osol.11 build 109 Athlon64 3400+ Aopen AK-86L mobo adeptec 1250sa Sata PCI controller card
I'm having trouble with an adaptec 1205sa (non-raid) SATA PCI card. It was all working fine when I plugged 2 used sata 200gb disks of a windows xp machine into it. Booted my osol server and added a zpool mirror using those 2 drives and the adaptec 1205sa SATA PCI card. So I know it works. On every boot I see a message like this Press F3 to enter configuration utility Primary channel: WDC WD200-blah-blah 190782 MB Primary secondary: WDC WD200-blah-blah 190782 MB There would be a bief pause which I ignored then it would continue on up. And work just fine. I did try pressing F3 to see what the utility did but it had no effect and booted on up. Now my 200gb mirror is too small, I'm replacing it with 2 750s. I thought I would shutdown, pull one 200gb and replace it with a 750 to be attached and resilvered. Then the other 750. However I hit a snag right away. Pulled a 200gb added a 750 but on boot when I get to that screen I see: Press F3 to enter configuration utility Primary channel: WDC WD200-blah-blah 190782 MB Primary secondary: WDC WD750-blah-blah Note the size is missing. And there the boot hangs.. forever. Pressing F3 has no effect whatever. So it appears I'm stuck. I'm thinking the problem is that the adaptec for some reason needs to be able to report a size and that is whats hanging things up. So I wondered if it might get me past this hang if I were to plug that new 750 into a windows/or linux machine and format it, either as ntfs on windows or just fdisk a partition of the entire drive on linux. I hate to do all that if it isn't necessary and wondered if some of you experienced people might have a suggestion or two _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
