I have not carried out any research into this area, but when I was
building my home server I wanted to use a Promise SATA-PCI card, but
alas (Open)Solaris has no support at all for the Promise chipsets.
Instead I used a rather old card based on the sil3124 chipset.
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On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 9:35
Yes, please write more about this. The photos are terrific and I
appreciate the many useful observations you've made. For my home NAS I
chose the Chenbro ES34069 and the biggest problem was finding a
SATA/PCI card that would work with OpenSolaris and fit in the case
(technically impossible without
This is probably bug #6462803. The work-around goes something like this:
$ pfexec bash
# beadm mount opensolaris /mnt
# beadm unmount opensolaris
# svcadm clear svc:/system/filesystem/zfs/auto-snapshot:frequent
# svcadm clear svc:/system/filesystem/zfs/auto-snapshot:hourly
# svcadm clear svc:/syst
Regarding the SATA card and the mainboard slots, make sure that
whatever you get is compatible with the OS. In my case I chose
OpenSolaris which lacks support for Promise SATA cards. As a result,
my choices were very limited since I had chosen a Chenbro ES34069 case
and Intel Little Falls 2 mainboa
