the onboard sata is a secondary issue. If i need to, i'll boot from the oboard usb slots. I have 2 LSI 1068e based sas controllers which i will be using.
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 8:40 PM, James C. McPherson <j...@opensolaris.org>wrote: > On 12/05/10 10:32 AM, Michael DeMan wrote: > >> I agree on the motherboard and peripheral chipset issue. >> >> This, and the last generation AMD quad/six core motherboards >> > > all seem to use the AMD SP56x0/SP5100 chipset, which I can't > > find much information about support on for either OpenSolaris or FreeBSD. > > If you can get the device driver detection utility to run > on it, that will give you a reasonable idea. > > > Another issue is the LSI SAS2008 chipset for SAS controller >> > > which is frequently offered as an onboard option for many motherboards > > as well and still seems to be somewhat of a work in progress in > > regards to being 'production ready'. > > What metric are you using for "production ready" ? > Are there features missing which you expect to see > in the driver, or is it just "oh noes, I haven't > seen enough big customers with it" ? > > > James C. McPherson > -- > Senior Software Engineer, Solaris > Oracle > http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss >
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