X2100 M2 won't recognize SATA/SAS drives
Hello,
I recently got in an X2100 M2 and am having problems getting an OS on it. I can't get the server to see the hard drives at all. They don't show up in BIOS and when I try to load RHEL 4 ES Update 4, it doesn't see any drives to install the OS on. I also tried using Fedora Core 6 and it loaded the nv_sata driver, but still couldn't find any drives to install the OS on.
I tried booting with the Sun Tools and Drivers CD and the Hardware Diagnostics doesn't see any hard drives either.
I then tried booting with the Solaris 10 CD it came with and that hung upon boot.
To give some more background info:
I downloaded the latest Tools and Drivers CD and upgraded the BIOS/SP (3A15 and 2.91) and the USB ports stopped working until it loaded OS drivers. For example, I couldn't use the keyboard during POST, but once it booted from the RHEL 4 CD and loaded the USB drivers, the keyboard started working again.
I opened a case with Sun and they had never heard of that problem and suggested I downgrade to the previous BIOS. They keyboard wouldn't even work when booting from the Tools and Drivers CD, so I had to setup eLOM and downgrade the BIOS that way. Once I downgraded to 3A12 and 2.70 the keyboard started working perfectly again.
At this point, the server seem to be working great, but I can't get an OS on it, because no OS setup can see the drives.
Any ideas?
Here's another question. The drives have labels on them indicating they are SAS drives, but they are clearly SATA drives. How does that work?\
Thanks a bunch.
Matt
