Take a closer look at this picture:
Tool on top: Finder, Tool below: mucommander.
What you see are 2 independent tools that I tried to copy my “photos” folder from the backup HD (external) to the ZFS volume using Samba.
First test, as described last night, was using my “root” user and moving the stuff with the “cp” command. Even as the both windows above, it simply stopped working. Ctrl+C? No escape – needed to reboot the machine.
But now comes the very strange part! I copied ALL files successful from the external HD to the internal RAID10 in my Mac Pro. No issues! All (tested, of course I didn’t tested 190GB of files) were working fine.
I’ve no idea what to do now. I’ve that bad feeling, that it depends on the SMB implementation. Maybe I could try it using a FTP server on the OpenSolaris machine, but this is no real solution. Any ideas? CiaoDennis
Constantin Gonzalez
Hi Dennis,first of all, congratulations to your new home server! Actually, someone came up with the question on my blog whether the on-board SATA implementation supports AHCI mode or if it needs to run in IDE compatibility mode. I know that I’m running IDE mode so my M3A76-CM board sees all 5 disks. Are you running AHCI mode or IDE?Concerning the hang you see above, meanwhile I have the impression that there are still some bugs in the OpenSolaris CIFS implementation in 2009.06 that may be responsible for that. Some people have moved to a developer build because of that where the CIFS bugs apparently have been fixed, but in your case (and certainly for me) I’d wait for the next regular release which hopefully comes out in a few weeks or so.Cheers, Constantin
Dennis Klein
Hi Constantin,thanks
Well, the board behaves a bit strange from time to time. When I connect all 6 drives to the onboard SATA controller, it happens, that 1 drive is not shown. When mixing them a bit, it works. The AHCI works, when I installed the HDs from the beginning. Adding them later created the no more bootable OpenSolaris. I had set it up again and then it worked.So AHCI and IDE are both working fine!Regarding SMB/CIFS, I think this issue was solved when I used netatalk which is not that complicated to compile on OpenSolaris. This works fine and great. And the Sun SMB protocol should be fine and usable for our 2 Mediaboxes in the house (Fantec and WD TV live) who are both connecting to the server using Samba.When I find some minutes to breath through, I will collect the information of 2 tutorials I use to create a new blog post on how to set up Netatalk on OpenSolaris. Until this time, I would recommend to read:http://cafenate.wordpress.com/2009/02/08/building-netatalk-on-opensolaris-200…andhttp://darkdust.net/writings/opensolaris/compilingnetatalkonopensolarisFor all reading this, DON’T FORGET to install the gcc & stuff first! 
Using:$ pfexec pkg install SUNWgcc SUNWgmake SUNWxorg-headers SUNWGtk SUNWsfwheaCiaoDennis