If there are two IDE drives on the same controller, one must be set to "master" and the other to "slave." Typically, if there is both an IDE hard disk drive and an IDE CD-ROM drive, the hard disk drive is the master, and the CD-ROM drive is the slave, but this isn't mandatory. If there is only one drive on a controller, it must be set to master.
Primary controller:
o IRQ Level: |
14 |
o I/O Address: |
0x1F0 |
Secondary controller:
o IRQ Level: |
15 |
o I/O Address: |
0x170 |
If an IDE CD-ROM drive is installed, the system BIOS parameter for that device should be:
o Drive Type: |
Not installed |
If an enhanced IDE drive is installed, set the system BIOS as follows:
o Enhanced IDE Drive: |
Enabled |
If the BIOS supports autoconfiguration, use this facility to set the number of heads, cylinders, and sectors for the IDE hard disk drive. If this capability is not supported by the BIOS, use the settings provided by the disk manufacturer.
The Panasonic LK_MC579B IDE CD-ROM drive cannot be used to install the Solaris operating environment and is not supported.
Several vendors ship PCI-equipped machines with IDE interfaces on the motherboard. A number of these machines use the CMD-604 PCI-IDE controller. This chip provides two IDE interfaces. The primary IDE interface is at I/O address 0x1F0 and the secondary interface at 0x170. However, this chip cannot handle simultaneous I/O on both IDE interfaces. This defect causes the Solaris software to hang if both interfaces are used.
Use only the primary IDE interface at address 0x1F0. Machines using this chip include DELL XPS/90, HP XU/590C, and American Megatrends Atlas boards.
You cannot boot from the third or fourth IDE disk drives, although you can install Solaris software on them.
The Solaris Volume Management software does not work with the Sony CDU-55E CD-ROM drive no matter how it is configured (as the master or the slave). Comment out the following line in the file /etc/vold.conf to prevent vold from hanging the controller:
# use cdrom drive /dev/rdsk/c*s2 dev_cdrom.so cdrom%d |
NEC CDR-260/CDR-260R/CDR-273, AZT CDR 268-031SE, Media Vision 6X, and Sony CDU-55E ATAPI CD-ROM drives may fail during installation.
Some systems may have problems booting from IDE drives that are larger than 512 Mbytes, even though the install to the drive succeeds. Disable logical block addressing, and reduce the CMOS geometry information for the drive to be less than 1024 cylinders.
If you are using a Compaq LTE Elite 4/40 notebook, the system may hang when changing from suspend mode to resume. To keep the ata driver from hanging after being resumed, use any text editor to change the default value of the timing_flags property (in the /platform/i86pc/kernel/drv/ata.conf file) from 0x0 to 0x1 (that is, timing_flags=0x1). Then save the file and reboot the system.
Note that the file contains an entry for the timing_flags property for both the primary and secondary controllers. For the Compaq LTE Elite 4/40, you only have to change the property for the primary controller.
The Compaq Professional Workstation 5000 includes a Compaq/Sanyo CRD-168PCH ATAPI CD-ROM drive that is not recognized by the Solaris software when you first turn the machine on.
To work around this problem, before you attempt to install the Solaris software, turn the machine on and press Control-Alt-Delete to reboot.