[OpenIndiana-discuss] N40L rear e-sata

[Sašo Kiselkov]

On 11/12/2012 08:32 PM, Michelle Knight wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Nov 2012 18:30:23 +0100
> vab at bb-c.de (Volker A. Brandt) wrote:
> 
>>> I made a new installation of OI a couple of weeks ago, on a HP N40L
>>> system.
>>>
>>> At the back is an e-sata port that I want to hook up to an external
>>> drive, but when I hook up a drive through it and issue cfgadm -lav I
>>> can't see it on any channel.
>>
>> Can you see the external disk in the BIOS?
>>
>>
>> Regards -- Volker
> 
> Apologies for the delay. I had to find an opportune time to take the
> system down.
> 
> Yes, the BIOS can see all drives. 
> 
> Interestingly, however, the system can not only not see the external
> drive, it can't see the system drive either... all it can see on the
> sata channels are the three data drives...
> 
> Ap_Id                          Receptacle   Occupant     Condition
> Information When         Type         Busy     Phys_Id
> sata0/0::dsk/c5t0d0            connected    configured   ok
> Mod: WDC WD30EZRX-00MMMB0 FRev: 80.00A80 SN: WD-WMAWZ0181761
> unavailable  disk         n        /devices/pci at 0,0/pci103c,1609 at 11:0
> sata0/1                        empty        unconfigured ok
> unavailable  sata-port    n        /devices/pci at 0,0/pci103c,1609 at 11:1
> sata0/2::dsk/c5t2d0            connected    configured   ok
> Mod: WDC WD30EZRX-00MMMB0 FRev: 80.00A80 SN: WD-WMAWZ0278326
> unavailable  disk         n        /devices/pci at 0,0/pci103c,1609 at 11:2
> sata0/3::dsk/c5t3d0            connected    configured   ok
> Mod: WDC WD30EZRX-00MMMB0 FRev: 80.00A80 SN: WD-WCAWZ2012528
> 
> 
> The BIOS was flashed to allow the extended functionality.
> 
> Interestingly, if I read the BIOS correctly, the BIOS possibly thinks
> that the system drive on SATA port 5, and possibly the external SATA as
> well, could be interpreted as IDE drives.

You need to turn this off - that's old parallel ATA (IDE) emulation
mode. You must enable AHCI (native SATA) for the fifth and sixth ports.
Then you will be able to use cfgadm to work with them.

Cheers,
--
Saso