Upgraded home file server
I decieded to upgrade the home file server to the newest version of solaris 10.. first I copied all the data off of the machine (about 300gig) to another machine so I can use ZFS once it gets reloaded. Reloading went fine, except Solaris failed to see the Adaptec PATA controller card that has the 2 400 GB harddrives on it.. In the old version of solaris 10 all I had to do was edit the /boot/solaris/devicedb/master file and add in “pci1095,680 pci-ide msd pci ata.bef “Silicon Image 680 PATA Controller”", and then reboot and go in to the DCA and “find” the new device. Well this does not work with new boot. So to get the controller to show up, I still put it in the master file, but then had to run
touch /reconfigure
shutdown -g0 -i6 -y
Once the machine booted, my drives showed up. Now off to create some ZFS file systems!
