> BOOTING AND ACCESSING 6 SATA DRIVES USING AHCI
>
> I have installed b48 running 64 bit succesfully on
> this machine using dual core Intel Woodcrest
> processors. The hardware supports up to 6 SATA II
> drives. I have installed 6 Western Digital Raptor
> drives. Using Parallell ATA mode I can only see 4
> drives. Using ZFS the sustained throughput is a
> disapointing 40MB/s per drive. I was expecting
> between 60 and 80.
>
> If I configure the BIOS to using AHCI mode the AHCI
> Bios can see all six drives. Grub appears and
> displays the nevada boot menu. However the machine
> resets when I try and boot Solaris.
>
> Can I simply tell solaris to use an AHCI SATA device
> for the root filesystem?
>
> If so what command line should I use?
ZFS discussion group would be a better place of this question. I am
cc''ing discussion group
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