Hey guys, please excuse me in advance if I say or ask anything stupid :) Anyway, Solaris newbie here. I've built for myself a new file server to use at home, in which I'm planning on configuring SXCE-89 & ZFS. It's a Supermicro C2SBX motherboard with a Core2Duo & 4GB DDR3. I have 6x750GB SATA drives in it connected to the onboard ICH9-R controller (with BIOS RAID disabled & AHCI enabled). I also have a 160GB SATA drive connected to a PCI SIIG SC-SA0012-S1 controller, the drive which will be used as the system drive. My plan is to configure a RAID-Z2 pool on the 6x750 drives. The system drive is just there for Solaris. I'm also out of ports to use on the motherboard, hence why I'm using an add-in PCI SATA controller.
My problem is that Solaris is not recognizing the system drive during the DVD install procedure. It sees the 6x750GB onboard drives fine. I originally used a RocketRAID 1720 SATA controller, which uses its own HighPoint chipset I believe, and it was a no-go. I went and exchanged that controller for a SIIG SC-SA0012-S1 controller, which I thought used a Silicon Integrated (SII) chipset. The install DVD isn't recognizing it unfortunatly, & now I'm not so sure that it uses a SII chipset. I checked the HCL, and it only lists a few cards that are reported to work under SXCE. If anyone has any suggestions on either... A) Using a different driver during the install procedure, or... B) A different, cheap SATA controller I'd appreciate it very much. Sorry for the rambling post, but I wanted to be detailed from the get-go. Thanks for any input! :) PS. On a side note, I'm interested in playing around with SXCE development. It looks interesting :) This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
