On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 5:46 AM, Anon Y Mous<no-reply at opensolaris.org> wrote: > No Martin, he means the SUNWhd package used on the x4500 and x4540 series > "Thumper" servers. This is a link below from Ben Rockwood that explains it: > > ?http://www.cuddletech.com/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=993 > > Unfortunately, SUNWhd is not a default part of Solaris (although it should > be), and it only works on the Marvell SATA controllers used in the Thumpers > and on a handful of other chipsets ("Silicon Image" chipsets, I think?). > > If you don't have SUNWhd installed, it's almost impossible to get SMART data > from SATA drives on Solaris, which is probably the biggest drawback to using > OpenSolaris as the operating system for your NAS.
'a NY-Mouse: Oh, thanks for the info )) I missed the earlier discussion.
