I've checked into it and the drives I have are the most recent/working firmware. This cannot be it. It is something with solaris (possibly my motherboard?) not reading the drives every time. I'll reboot and it will hang at 'configuring devices' for about a minute or two, this is when the drives are not recognized. When they are recognized and all is fine bootup happens in about 15 seconds.
This was not happening with b99. It was also not happening with 2008.11 for the first two weeks I had it installed. It began a couple of weeks ago and I could just do 'reboot -- -r' and it would be fine afterwards. Now It is hit or miss, sometimes discs 1 and 4 will show, sometimes only 1, sometimes 1 and 2, never none, rarely all 4. I guess theres not much difference in sxce b99 and OS2008.11 (that I'm using) so i'll probably just go back to b99 (afterall, it is 2 builds away from 2008.11 which is b101). I ran seatools for DOS all last night and today on the drives, long tests, all checked out and passed. I do not think this is a disk problem, but I think i'll call seagate just for the heck of it. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
