I have a IBM x235 server and I want to install Solaris 10 but everytime I run the install, Solaris cannot find my array thus not seeing any drives. What is the trick for Solaris?

I had same bug with HP DL380 G5. You can try Opensolaris latest build.

Or you can use Linux, BTW i think you could do anything.

Solaris - a true piece of art.

Can you disable the RAID from the BIOS ?

I can, There is also a IBM quick start cdrom that I have been using and I have delete and recreate the array and RAID5 and then after all of that has been done, I boot from the Solaris 10 cdrom and it ask me for the everything, blah blah blah and then it gives me the error message saying that it cannot see any of the drives. It has to be a driver that Solaris is not loading up for the RAID controller. Solaris is a piece of work. I am tryimg to understand why Sun is so ass backwards as far as making things a little easier for little things like better software package management, better plug and pray and etc. At least for the most part when ever I deal with most Linux Distros, they seem to have it together. I have been to the IBM website but there is no driver for Solaris under that model. What to do?

If your disk controller isn't supported by Solaris and you cannot configure it to present a standard interface, I'm afraid there is not that much you can do unless you are ready to write a driver from scratch or pay IBM or the chipset manufacturer to do it.

I have a Adaptec ServRAID 5I controller. I called IBM and they say that it is made by Adaptec but IBM make the drivers and they do not have any for that OS. I have talking to SUN technical support right now as we speak to see if they have any drivers for this controller.

There is a ray of light:

never mind, a deadend. What a waste of time.

IBM ServeRAID Application CD v8.40 - Servers and IntelliStation

Supported controllers and enclosures:
- IBM ServeRAID-8i Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) controller
- IBM ServeRAID-8k and 8k-l
- IBM ServeRAID-8s
- IBM ServeRAID-7t SATA controller
- IBM ServeRAID-7k Ultra320 SCSI controller
- IBM ServeRAID-7e/8e(Adaptec HostRAID) controllers
- IBM ServeRAID-6i/6i+ Ultra320 SCSI controller
- IBM ServeRAID-6M Ultra320 SCSI controller
- IBM ServeRAID-5i Ultra320 SCSI controller
- IBM ServeRAID-4H/4M/4L/4Mx/4Lx Ultra160 SCSI controllers
- IBM TotalStorage DS300 storage enclosure
- IBM TotalStorage DS400 storage enclosure
- LSI-1030 integrated RAID controller

Please see the IBM ServerProven website for compatibility information.
File details
Version: 8.40
Release Date: 2006-12-29
File link File size File description

ibm_sw_srapp_8.40_anyos_32-64.iso 461,242,368 IBM ServeRAID Application CD

Additional information

Supported Operating Systems

* Microsoft Windows 2000
* Microsoft Windows 2003
* Microsoft Windows XP
* Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
* Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9
* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10
* Novell NetWare 6.5
* VMware ESX Server 3.0
* Sun Solaris 10
* SCO UnixWare 7.1.3
* SCO UnixWare 7.1.4
* SCO OpenServer 5.0.6a
* SCO OpenServer 5.0.7
* SCO OpenServer 6.0

The ServeRAID Application CD is a non-bootable CD containing tools and utilities for use with IBM ServeRAID adapters and controllers. Included are the ServeRAID Manager application, the ARCCONF command line utility for SATA/SAS adapters, and the HRCONF command line utility for HostRAID controllers.


You need to have acces to the adress: ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/systems/support/system_x/
I think it is restricted.

Regards, C

forgive me for my stupidity but that application is not the actual drivers it is more less utilities for accesssing an already configured contoller. So I would choose option 5 during the Solaris installation and install the drivers?

I was told that I could manually install the opensolaris drivers during installation but how would I do that?

Hi metallica1973

I've got the same problem
I'm trying to find a solution and since I'm retired (got all the time now) I try things (after reading docs etc...) and when I got the solution I'll put it up here

My Server: 1x XEON (1.8Ghz) 8GB RAM - 5x 72GB sca scsi HDD

avatar1349