On 10/8/13 4:20 PM, Jonathan Adams wrote:
> they're SATA drives, Western DIgital 4000 FYYZ drives (the RE4 ones) ...

These are enterprise SATA drives, so you *should* be okay.

> the hardware is bought ... as SATA drives these ones work the best we've
> tried, the HighPoint should have worked in Linux/FreeBSD ... and it does
> if we put in a random bunch of old Seagates, but the shiny new WD's fall
> over until the machine is rebooted.
> 
> I'm willing to take any advice on a card/solution to get the SATA drives
> working, even if the OS turns out to be non-solaris, within the limits
> of most of the procured hardware.

The LSI 9201 16i should work well as long as we're talking direct-attach
here. You're not running an expander here, I hope.

Cheers,
-- 
Saso


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