On 3/26/15 13:07 , Harrison wrote: > Here's the output from prtconf -v it's big so I linked to the file > > https://mega.co.nz/#!0NV0SaJQ!OV2ru-P02p5UlUc_M91EF6WVuLTNVqsPHUOuwmLnS_8
So it appears your system both has a standard AHCI controller and also has the short-lived Intel SCU SAS/SATA controller. Which of those are your disks actually hooked up to? Thanks, Robert > On 3/26/15 11:14 AM, Robert Mustacchi wrote: >> 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/184463/27021705-307bfbd1 >> Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; >> Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com >> > ------------------------------------------- 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
