Re: [osol-discuss] Samsung Sata Drives Not Detected
hi Thank You. You have been so much help to me. Heres where i am now. i have managed to back up all my SATA drives by moving the data to a (Solaris readable IDE drive), and what i was not able to fit i squeezed onto at least 12 RW Dvd Disks. The Two Sata drives are ready for UFS Format soon and Solaris will see them as i turn raid off and leave it as IDE As i said i no nothing about UFS or ZFS this is all new to me. i will be installing Solaris once again this morning or what ever time it is now :) and get my email up and running as well as web Then i guess we will see what happens next This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Samsung Sata Drives Not Detected
Even though i was able to connect to the internet my machine kept freezing up when i logged out as user Also the no screensaver issue was still there for normal users only and not root, So i added the line PATH=$PATH /usr/openwin/bin to .profile to fix that as i had read long ago. All the manual fsck runs did not seem to help much on driver errors from constant reboots on screen freezes during logout attempts. i wound up just reinstalling all over again,hopefully its more stable. This time i discovered the DHCP option i did not notice before so its set to DHCP now and installing. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Samsung Sata Drives Not Detected
hi i am finally on with no errors on start up my internet connection is fine and i am online It took me time to figure it out. i have not formatted any drives yet for UFS This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Samsung Sata Drives Not Detected
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 3:10 PM, heather valentine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i saw the drives but was unable to mount them becasue i really dont want to format them in UFS as i have no where to move all that data. On Belenix i tried it from te Live Disk and te same thing no Change I misunderstood you. I thought that Belenix had worked for you. OpenSolaris supports the FAT file system, but not NTFS. It also supports UFS, but I think Solaris's UFS is different than BSD's UFS2 and may not be able to read it. What filesystem is on your drives currently? -B -- Brandon High [EMAIL PROTECTED] The good is the enemy of the best. - Nietzsche ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Samsung Sata Drives Not Detected
Hi Well i do have NTFS files system on all my drives now. i do have a question though is there any other possible way i can convert my drives to ZFS or UFS with software similar to partition magic in Windows right now. This way i can get all my data where i want it before hand. Also does that mean once i do any of the above i will no longer be able to access those drives when i do boot into Vista. Thanks This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Samsung Sata Drives Not Detected
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 6:50 AM, heather valentine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Well i do have NTFS files system on all my drives now. i do have a question though is there any other possible way i can convert my drives to ZFS or UFS with software similar to partition magic in Windows right now. This way i can get all my data where i want it before hand. Not at this time Also does that mean once i do any of the above i will no longer be able to access those drives when i do boot into Vista. If you could do such a thing, yes. You can use the tools found here to mount NTFS partitions (readonly!) on Solaris/OpenSolaris: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mount-ntfs/ -- Shawn Walker To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so. - Robert Orben ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Samsung Sata Drives Not Detected
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 4:50 AM, heather valentine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there any other possible way i can convert my drives to ZFS or UFS with software similar to partition magic in Windows right now. This way i can get all my data where i want it before hand. You could use Partition Magic or similar software to shrink your existing NTFS partition, then add a new Solaris UFS partition. I'm not sure if there's a way to non-destructively shrink a BSD UFS partition. -B -- Brandon High [EMAIL PROTECTED] The good is the enemy of the best. - Nietzsche ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Samsung Sata Drives Not Detected
i dont really have seperate controllers as they are built onboard on my PM8M-V MSI Board According to the specs on MSI's website this mainboard uses a VIA V8237 serial ata controller: http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p_spec.asp?model=PM8M-V There are bugs filed for this kind of problem, (missing sata support for this via sata controller): http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6411071 This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Samsung Sata Drives Not Detected
Hi Thank You for your reply Well what happened was this i was able to see the drives through dmesg |grep ata after i set the bios Raid to IDE. i did everythign correct through vfstab However i was not able to actually mount them in Solaris 10 but i was able to mount at least one of them on Belenix. IS Belenix still Solaris. i read also that i must format the drives in order for Solaris to use them as UFS file types, and since i do not want to format can that be a problem too if i already have Data on those drives that i cat afford to lose. Iis this really what i have to do? becasue i really dont have enough space to move all that Data. My question also is this. IS it also possible that Solaris was unable to see the available and free Space becasue i had about 300 gigs of it Locked using an old windows Folder lock program? here from this link http://www.newsoftwares.net/folderlock/ Thanks if you can answer my question on that. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Samsung Sata Drives Not Detected
Yes you are right folder lock was not the problem i installed Solaris 10 it without folder lock. i saw the drives but was unable to mount them becasue i really dont want to format them in UFS as i have no where to move all that data. On Belenix i tried it from te Live Disk and te same thing no Change Drive X and Z have almost a terra combined Drives C and D are Ide and im not worried about that But i lke to have access to all of them all of the time For now i use FreeBSD and Vista on This machine Seperate Drives of course i dont believe in using them both at the same time. OpenBSD as my Primary Web Server on differnt machine here The Server does ot have as much memory and Cpu milage as this one for Solaris This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Samsung Sata Drives Not Detected
it was Solaris Express i was using i was not sure why but when i downloaded the Solaris 10 X86 i seen a grub prompt on boot up inste4ad of an install menu Normally i never seen that on a Solaris Install DVD So i Downloaded Solaris express instead This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Samsung Sata Drives Not Detected
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 11:17 AM, heather valentine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i dont really have seperate controllers as they are built onboard on my PM8M-V MSI Board That's got a VIA VT8237 controller, which I don't believe is on the HCL. The device detection tool will tell you for certain. If it doesn't work in legacy mode, it's probably not going to work. If you want to use the drives with OpenSolaris you'll have to use a PCI controller. -B -- Brandon High [EMAIL PROTECTED] The good is the enemy of the best. - Nietzsche ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Samsung Sata Drives Not Detected
Brandon oh god i am so sorry i kept replying your reply via email i did not see a link in the email earlier to this site. i just replied to you again a 2nd time via email and it says. Hi Thank You for your reply again i guess that means i would have to have pci controller cards as well i never had them do i would not know. For now as you know i am using FreeBSD and OpenBSD where im running my web Page Server I am extremly happy about BSD but i keep hearing the only Real Unix is Solairs and a few others. i started BSD about a year and a half ago because i wanted to learn Unix and heard it was Unix, Now i hear its Unix like and in the linix family i wanted to learn one thing and learn it all right heather This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
