On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:33:57 PDT Lars von den Driesch <no-reply at opensolaris.org> wrote:
> Hi Mike, > > do the 2 drives work when you connect them directly to your computer (without > the hub)? Can't be done. Not without disassembling the RAID box they came in to yank a drive and finding another external box to put it in. Which sort of defeats the point of having a dual drive external box to start with. > Also try the driver utility to find out if there is a problem. Normally the > utility is quite fast in detecting your hardware. If it takes a long time > (minutes instead of seconds) try it without the USB-hub. The only problem it reports it that the integrated LAN isn't supported - which I knew. Turned that off in the BIOS, and ddu reports 0 problems. If I toggle the box from dual drives into one of it's RAID modes, it shows up as a "RAID sd" of some kind (du says "driver already installed"). But the point of plugging it into the Solaris box is to us ZFS and not have my data held hostage by the drive manufacturer. If I have to enable the boxes onboard RAID to use it on Solaris, I'll just plug it into the router the Solaris box is plugged into, putting it a network hope closer to the clients. Thanks, <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm at mired.org> http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org
