On 3/26/15 8:42 , Harrison wrote: > My company wants to make the switch to smartos from FreeBSD 10. Before > making the switch we wanted to mess around with smartos on real hardware > not just in vmware. We had a spare 1U laying around so I made a bootable > USB with the latest smartos usb image. When I booted the machine the > installer started just fine. However when I get to the create storage > pool section, no disks show up next to, Valid choices are. This Box has > 8 samsung 1tb 840 evos and none of them are being picked up by the > installer. I saw that joyent strongly recommends SAS over SATA but as > far as I can tell the illumos kernel supports SATA so I'm not sure why > none of these ssd's are being detected. > > Looking into smartos_prompt_config.sh it looks like 'disklist -n' is > returning blank. Shouldn't there be a check for nothing being returned > by 'disklist -n' like... > > if [[ $disks == "" ]]; then > echo "No disks detected!" > > I'm not sure but I think ALLDISKS in disklist.sh is not being set to > anything, but I can't test that until I am back at the box. > > Any help with getting smartos to detect the ssd's would be much > appreciated, thanks and the motherboard is a Supermicro X9DRW-3TF+ if > that helps. >
Hi Harrison, It's true that we do strongly recommend SAS over SATA, but the system does generally support SATA; however, we don't necessarily support every SATA controller under the sun. From the bootable USB entry, can you select the noimport mode and run prtconf -v and redirect that to a file back on the USB key and make that available? That'll allow us to determine what your SATA controller is and whether or not we support it. Thanks, Robert ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
