This is how i understand it. I know the network cards are well supported and i know my storage cards are supported....the onboard sata may work and it may not. If it does, great, i'll use it for booting, if not, this board has 2 onboard bootable USB sticks....luckily usb seems to work regardless
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 1:18 AM, Geoff Nordli <geo...@gnaa.net> wrote: > > > On Behalf Of James C. McPherson > >Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 5:41 PM > > > >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" ? > > > > > > I have been wondering what the compatibility is like on OpenSolaris. My > perception is basic network driver support is decent, but storage > controllers are more difficult for driver support. > > My perception is if you are using external cards which you know work for > networking and storage, then you should be alright. > > Am I out in left-field on this? > > Thanks, > > Geoff > > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss >
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