Any suggestions on what to do if the nic is not detected during the OS install/reboot?

it's the 1st time I add an HDD to a hot-swap backplane of a server running illumos... sorry for the stupid question: how can I find the path (in /dev/) of the new added device?

for the record, "devfsadm -v" does not display any output

Do you have the `hotplug` service enabled? Does the device show up in the output of `cfgadm`?

aha, the 'hotplug' service is not enabled.... let me enable it and retry!

I do wonder if that should be on by default these days...

even enabling it, the newly plugged disk does not appears in 'cfgadm' output, I'm rebooting...

after reboot it shows up: "sata2/27::dsk/c3t27d0"

Oh, sata. I don't have a lot of experience with that. I don't remember if auto-online is enabled for default.

but I just detached the same disk and it still appears as "connected" in 'cfgadm' output (and now the hotplug service is enabled and running)... :'(

sorry, coming from FreeBSD is all new for me: I'm used to plug in a disk, then the kernel logs the new available device and I'm ready to use it... how the same process works in illumos/OmniOS?

warden you may need to use cfgadm -c configure and cfgadm -c unconfigure. unconfigure only succeeds if the disk is not in use. (modulo bugs)

tsoome: thanks, I just did it, but it looks like I'm issuing the wrong set of parameters... here it is the output: paste.omnios.org/?fcb38f3b35363ac4#…DvJ79omPmm4bsyX6pozZuhA1xkvKXFFuVNn

Sorry I used the wrong ap_id code, here it's the output with the right one: paste.omnios.org/?3d24f3c101ff6c17#…X9J1iwNwR1oaW58cg3bQ1KiYYmwjka2if3q

what you get from this one: cfgadm -al

here it is without any disk inserted (the system is installed onto a M.2 drive): paste.omnios.org/?2497bb7fc4e0c986#…tKvLP8RX4t9EMeCwon1XZSvqRjfoedYxQKe

ok and if you insert the disk and run cfgadm -c configure sata2 ?

it outputs me the usage help, as if I used wrong parameters (stderr = 3)

ok, so it wants the slot if too.

slot id*

and with slot id, you also will get the error message?

note the same error, but this one: paste.omnios.org/?3d24f3c101ff6c17#…X9J1iwNwR1oaW58cg3bQ1KiYYmwjka2if3q

so, are you sure it was connected to sata2/27 ?

does it tell anything in dmesg output?

I'm sure of that ap_id because I read it with the disk inserted since the OS boot. Nothing from the dmesg output by hot-inserting the disk. But I read a 'disconnected' event in dmesg after removing the disk which was present since boot.

maybe hot-swapping is not supported by the driver for this SATA controller in illumos (I successfully tested it with FreeBSD on the same hardware)

yes, that can be the case. assuming, the hw itself does support hot-insert and hot-remove.

since hot-plugging works with FreeBSD, maybe it's the illumos driver. So my resolution ability stops here! :) Tanks for your time!

tbh, I'm not too sure what is the exact state of sata support too. There ate not that many sata/ahci related updates over the years....

Hi. I just created my first PR: omniosorg/omnios-extra #1601 Could you check pls?

It looks like OmniOS has "set sata:sata_auto_online=1" in system(5) so I would expect, absent driver bugs, that the system would automatically online SATA disks