Information Library for Solaris 2.6 (Intel Platform Edition)

Configuration Procedure

Using the EISA configuration utility:


Note -

During the EISA configuration, if you need to manually edit the BIOS base address and there are two DSA controllers, assign the controller in the lower-numbered EISA slot an address that is lower than the second one. This forces the BIOS to spin up the disks on the secondary controller so they are accessible after a cold boot.


Dell Disk Manager Setup

If your disk did not come from Dell, you must use the Dell Disk Manager Setup to low-level format the hard disk before completing the following:

  1. Set up one or more composite drives using the Dell DOS software array manager program.

  2. Make one composite drive on controller 1 "Drive 0 - Composite Drive A."

    This will be the drive containing the bootable Solaris partition.

  3. Select any RAID level supported by the controller.


    Note -

    All disk drives used by the Solaris software (except the CD-ROM used during the initial installation) must be composite drives having one or more physical drives.


  4. Enable Adaptec AHA-1540 emulation on the CD-ROM drive:

    1. Set targets 0-5 to OFF.

    2. Set target 6 to emulate the CD-ROM drive, SCSI ID 6.

    3. Set target 7 to emulate the controller ID.

  5. Save your configuration changes.