[OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster 2020.10 text installer ISO Wow!!!!

[Reginald Beardsley]

 Does *not* work on my Z400 machine. I reset the BIOS to "AHCI+RAID" and the 2020.10 GUI installer enters maintenance mode. prtconf -v won't even run.

With it set to "IDE" in the BIOS it reports "82801JI (ICH10 family) 4 port SATA IDE" and the same message but "2 port".

"RAID" never appears in the prtconf -v output. I'm running BIOS 3.19, though I do have a couple of machines with an older BIOS (3.07??) installed. Those are all 4 DIM slot machines. My newer 6 slot machine is far too precious to fool with. The 4 DIMM machines have Vista stickers. The 6 DIMM came with Win 7 Pro.

 I really don't think it's an issue. The numbers below are for a 3 disk RAIDZ1 pool with a quad core 2.67 GHz Xeon W3520 with 8 GB of RAM. Realistically it's not going to be able to crunch data fast enough for the disk transfer rate to matter.

sun_x86%rhb {126} /usr/bin/time dd if=/dev/zero bs=65536 count=65536 of=zero.tst
65536+0 records in
65536+0 records out
4294967296 bytes transferred in 46.334185 secs (92695432 bytes/sec)

real 46.3
user 0.1
sys 4.8
sun_x86%rhb {127} 
sun_x86%rhb {127} rm zero.tst
sun_x86%rhb {128} /usr/bin/time dd if=/dev/zero bs=65536 count=1048576 of=zero.tst
1048576+0 records in
1048576+0 records out
68719476736 bytes transferred in 1086.415813 secs (63253384 bytes/sec)

real 18:06.4
user 2.2
sys 1:17.0
sun_x86%rhb {129} 

Have Fun!
Reg

On Tuesday, March 2, 2021, 10:49:05 AM CST, Gary Mills <gary_mills at fastmail.fm> wrote:

ACHI+RAID does work with Solaris and OI, but you have to do some
preparation first. I know because I have done that with my Z400
and installed OI on it. The instructions are here:

 https://superuser.com/questions/635829/how-do-i-install-solaris-on-a-fake-raid-a-k-a-ahciraid-sata-sas-controller/635830#635830