Well, no one answered, but I have since confirmed both from Intel/Solaris press and my own testing that i7, X58 and ICH10 are a fine match with OpenSolaris 2008.11. However, as with all of the ICHxR chipsets, if you can't disable the RAID in the BIOS by setting it to AHCI/non-RAID mode, you will have to settle for IDE/ATA compatibility mode. In my brief tests, there doesn't seem to be a huge performance hit, although I'd prefer to keep everything "native".
For anyone curious, the Dell XPS 435 series are 100% compatible with 2008.11--audio and all. The 435MT doesn't currently have an ACHI non-RAID mode for its SATA controller (set it to ATA), but the 435T does. Nice to have 12GB+ of memory to use with VB. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
