{"id":42,"date":"2010-01-15T06:12:14","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T06:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poojanwagh.opalstacked.com\/techblog\/?p=42"},"modified":"2010-01-15T06:12:14","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T06:12:14","slug":"opensolaris-dev-b130-xorg-crash-and-sata-drive-incompatibilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tech.poojanblog.com\/blog\/unix-linux\/opensolaris-dev-b130-xorg-crash-and-sata-drive-incompatibilities\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenSolaris dev b130 (Xorg crash) and SATA drive incompatibilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently <a title=\"OpenSolars 2009.06 to dev b130: Xorg modules, ICEauthority, ptmx\" href=\"http:\/\/poojanwagh.opalstacked.com\/techblog\/unix-linux\/opensolars-2009-06-to-dev-b130-xorg-modules-iceauthority-ptmx\/\">got my OpenSolaris machine set up<\/a> pretty much all right. During this set up, I disabled\/disconnected a few hard drives. Namely, B) an external eSATA\/USB Maxtor model <code>6Yxxxx<\/code> 250 GB hard drive C) an internal SATA Maxtor model <code>7Yxxxx<\/code> 250 GB hard drive, and D) an external 1 TB USB drive. Now that the set up was complete, I reconnected\/re-enabled all the drives.<\/p>\n<p>I essentially ran into this problem: <a title=\"http:\/\/defect.opensolaris.org\/bz\/show_bug.cgi?id=13540\" href=\"http:\/\/defect.opensolaris.org\/bz\/show_bug.cgi?id=13540\">http:\/\/defect.opensolaris.org\/bz\/show_bug.cgi?id=13540<\/a> which is a meta-bug of sorts. Basically, this bug describes Xorg freezing up because something else (could be a number of things) caused it to crash.<\/p>\n<p>So, I decided to experiment and I started deactivating drives one by one. First drive D, then drive B, then drive C. Things finally started working when all drives were disconnected. I reconnected drive B and things worked. I then reconnected drive C and things broke. Seemed like C was the problem. So, I turned off drive B. Things worked again. As it turns out, I could enable either drive B or drive C but not both.<\/p>\n<p>That was weird. I even tried turning B back on but connecting it in USB mode. That still broke when C was connected. So, I disconnected B again and connected D. Still didn&#8217;t work.<\/p>\n<p>For some reason, I could connect only drive C but not any other drives (other than my boot drive) when it was connected. It didn&#8217;t matter if they were eSATA or USB.<\/p>\n<p>I still haven&#8217;t figured out why this is. Right now, I&#8217;m running with drive C disabled and my boot drive, B, and D all plugged in. I don&#8217;t know if it matters but drive C has an install of Nexenta Core 3.0 alpha 2 on it.<\/p>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-42'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(42);\" title='' ><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tech.poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>Be the first to like.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(42);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(42);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently got my OpenSolaris machine set up pretty much all right. During this set up, I disabled\/disconnected a few hard drives. Namely, B) an external eSATA\/USB Maxtor model 250 GB hard drive C) an internal SATA Maxtor model 250 GB hard drive, and D) an external 1 TB USB drive. Now that the set [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[11,4,9],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unix-linux","tag-drives","tag-opensolaris","tag-xorg"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech.poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech.poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech.poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech.poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech.poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tech.poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43,"href":"https:\/\/tech.poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech.poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech.poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech.poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}