Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Solaris HCL

I'd suspect more your IDE/SATA controller than the hard drive itself. Solaris
has rather, unusual hardware needs. Plus, since Oracle have gotten their
smitty claws into it.....

On Friday 08 July 2011 14:56:35 Rob Malpass wrote:
> Hi all
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> I've never bothered much with Hardware Compatibility Lists before - but it
> looks as though I may have just fallen foul of one. Can anyone help
> explain?
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> I have a bog standard box on which I test various OS (I know I could use vm
> but I've never found mouse movement as smooth for example and vm on top of
> my visually impaired software is a bit of a pickle for any PC - but I
> digress). I have had Slackware 13 running on this box since Christmas and
> have just tried to install Solaris 10. During the install, I'm getting
> hundreds of messages which seem to relate to /dev/sd0 which I'm assuming is
> my hard drive (the machine only has one hdd and one DVD drive). The md5
> checksum worked and I've had the same disk working fine on a vm (as
> passthrough) and on another PC.
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> Googling around seems to suggest it's a problem and that my HDD (whose spec
> I'd have to open up the box to determine exactly) is not on the Solaris
> HCL. What I don't understand is why this would be. It's a bog standard
> 0.5Tb drive bought from Novatech for about 50 quid last year. While it's
> not brilliant, it runs Slack fine and I've no reason to suspect it
> wouldn't run Ubuntu or anything else.
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> Is there anything else I should be checking for besides HCL for the drive.
> I'd be more prepared to believe it was the mobo that's not in the HCL but
> I've never fallen foul of these HCL before - anyone know if Solaris is
> particularly choosy on which hardware it runs (choosier than other OS for
> example)?
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> Cheers
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> Rob