Solaris

We get the error "NO HARD Disks found" while installing Solaris 10 (latest-6/06) on Poweredge 2950.

We found that the LSISAS1068 driver is needed for this. But the provision is given only to install the driver using the floppy (in downloads site). But we dont have a floppy drive in our system and external USB floppy drive is not being recognised by Solaris (If we choose "Apply driver" option while installing and then choose "F" for floppy). We tried connecting the floopy in both front and back USB ports.

So we made an ISO image of the floppy and burnt it onto the CD. while installing solaris we select option 5 "apply driver". Now if insert the CD having driver and enter option "C" for CD it says extracting the software in /dev/dsk/c0t0d0p0. But nothing happens after that.
When we continue installing the OS we get the same error of disks not found.

Then when we get a shell prompt we mounted the driver CD and then installed the driver using the install.sh present in tools directory of the driver CD. The installation is successful but if we execute devfsadm also the new disks are not found.

It would be great if somebody could help in this regard.

Good luck getting Solaris to run on a Dell PE.

It barely runs Red Hat properly.

Does your Dell POS have one of those PERC cards?

S.Vishwanath or anybody else with this same issue:
I'm having the same problem loading Solaris 10 on our Dell PowerEdge 2950. Did you ever get your server up and running? I get the same error message: No disks found, Check to make sure disks are cabled and powered up, Press ok to exit. I tried with the Solaris 10 OS 11/06 DVD with no luck.

Assuming you have a SAS 5/i Integrated Controller Card(LSI Logic 1068) you can download the driver from the LSI homepage and use that.

On LSI's download page......Which driver do I need to download? On the drop-down menu next to Select a specific product there's so many options and I'm not sure which one to choose.
I have Seagate SAS drives (146GB capacity x6) (Cheetah T10 Model#ST3146755SS.
On bootup, it does say: HA-O (Bus 2 Dev 14) Perc 5/i Integrated
FW package: 5.1.1.-0040

Ignore what the pages says about Solaris 8 or 9 (read the readme)