Re: [zfs-discuss] Is there _any_ suitable motherboard?

2007-08-29 Thread MP
Has anyone considered the Gigabyte GA-G33-DS3R which has a G33 chipset (P35 with builtin video). It has that builtin VGA and the most on board, well supported, SATA ports I could find: 8xSATA; 6xSATA provided by the ICH9 and 2xSATA on JMB363. The latter must be supported by OpenSolaris? It's

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is there _any_ suitable motherboard?

2007-08-27 Thread Richard Elling
FYI, nvsata integrated into b72 for MCP55. http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/on/flag-days/all/ [and there was much rejoicing :-)] -- richard Nathan Kroenert wrote: For what it's worth, I bought a Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4 a couple of months ago and it rocks on a reasonably current

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is there _any_ suitable motherboard?

2007-08-26 Thread Ben Middleton
I've just purchased an Asus P5K WS, which seems to work OK. I had to download the Marvell Yukon ethernet driver - but it's all working fine. It's also got a PCI-X slot - so I have one of those Super Micro 8 port SATA cards - providing a total of 16 SATA ports across the system. Other specs are

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is there _any_ suitable motherboard?

2007-08-26 Thread Nathan Kroenert
For what it's worth, I bought a Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4 a couple of months ago and it rocks on a reasonably current Nevada. Certainly not the cheapest or most expensive, but I felt a good choice for multiple PCI-E slots and a couple of PCI slots.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is there _any_ suitable motherboard?

2007-08-26 Thread Ian Collins
Ben Middleton wrote: I've just purchased an Asus P5K WS, which seems to work OK. I had to download the Marvell Yukon ethernet driver - but it's all working fine. It's also got a PCI-X slot - so I have one of those Super Micro 8 port SATA cards - providing a total of 16 SATA ports across the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is there _any_ suitable motherboard?

2007-08-24 Thread Ian Collins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If power consumption and heat is a consideration, the newer Intel CPUs have an advantage in that Solaris supports native power management on those CPUs. Are P35 chipset boards supported? Ian ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is there _any_ suitable motherboard?

2007-08-24 Thread Neal Pollack
Ian Collins wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If power consumption and heat is a consideration, the newer Intel CPUs have an advantage in that Solaris supports native power management on those CPUs. Are P35 chipset boards supported? The P35 chipset works fine with Solaris.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is there _any_ suitable motherboard?

2007-08-23 Thread Jasse Jansson
Mark wrote: Hey, I will submit it. However does Opensolaris have a seperate HCL? or do i just use the solaris one? Last time I tried to submit anything, they didn't even accepted sxcr release numbers, only proper Solaris releases numbers. -- Kaiser Jasse -- Authorized Stealth Oracle The

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is there _any_ suitable motherboard?

2007-08-22 Thread Mark
Hi, For what your looking for the gigabyte M61p-S3 is the perfect mobo. Six sata ports DDRII and a am2 dual core AMD is really cheap. Only downside is that the realtek NIC oesnt work as far as i know. However an intel gigabit card is relativly cheap and works. And even with all that i was able

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is there _any_ suitable motherboard?

2007-08-22 Thread Casper . Dik
Hi, For what your looking for the gigabyte M61p-S3 is the perfect mobo. Six sata ports DDRII and a am2 dual core AMD is really cheap. Only downside is that the realtek NIC oesnt work as far as i know. However an intel gigabit card is relativly cheap and works. And even with all that i was able

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is there _any_ suitable motherboard?

2007-08-22 Thread Mark
Hey, I will submit it. However does Opensolaris have a seperate HCL? or do i just use the solaris one? Cheers Mark This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is there _any_ suitable motherboard?

2007-08-20 Thread Brian Hechinger
On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 02:20:42PM +0100, Alec Muffett wrote: Does anyone on this list have experience with a recent board with 6 or more SATA ports that they know is supported? Well so far I have only populated 5 of the ports I have available, but my writeup with my 9-port SATS ASUS

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is there _any_ suitable motherboard?

2007-08-14 Thread Anon
Have the ICH-8 and ICH-9 been physically tested with Solaris? The page for the ACHI driver still only lists through ICH-6 as having support? What is the Solaris support for the rest of the ICH-9 chipset such as USB, etc.? This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is there _any_ suitable motherboard?

2007-08-14 Thread James C. McPherson
Anon wrote: Have the ICH-8 and ICH-9 been physically tested with Solaris? The page for the ACHI driver still only lists through ICH-6 as having support? What is the Solaris support for the rest of the ICH-9 chipset such as USB, etc.? I've just been in contact with my colleagues who developed

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is there _any_ suitable motherboard?

2007-08-14 Thread Neal Pollack
Anon wrote: Have the ICH-8 and ICH-9 been physically tested with Solaris? The page for the ACHI driver still only lists through ICH-6 as having support? What is the Solaris support for the rest of the ICH-9 chipset such as USB, etc.? This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is there _any_ suitable motherboard?

2007-08-14 Thread Pete Bentley
Neal Pollack wrote: ICH-8 and ICH-9 are indeed supported and running Solaris Nevada. Here is the current status of ICH-9 support as of build 70, Solaris Express edition: - USB works - AHCI SATA disks work fine. - ATAPI over SATA for DVD drives is still being tested prior to integration.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is there _any_ suitable motherboard?

2007-08-10 Thread Neal Pollack
Alec Muffett wrote: Does anyone on this list have experience with a recent board with 6 or more SATA ports that they know is supported? Well so far I have only populated 5 of the ports I have available, but my writeup with my 9-port SATS ASUS mobo is at:

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is there _any_ suitable motherboard?

2007-08-10 Thread Brian Hechinger
On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 10:23:49AM -0700, Neal Pollack wrote: Server class: Chipset ESB-2 southbridge Desktop class: Chipset ICH-8 and ICH-9 Motherboards known as i965 chipset and Intel P35 chipsets Are the i975 chipset boards any less

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is there _any_ suitable motherboard?

2007-08-10 Thread Alec Muffett
Does anyone on this list have experience with a recent board with 6 or more SATA ports that they know is supported? Well so far I have only populated 5 of the ports I have available, but my writeup with my 9-port SATS ASUS mobo is at: http://www.crypticide.com/dropsafe/article/2091

[zfs-discuss] Is there _any_ suitable motherboard?

2007-08-10 Thread Bhima Pandava
Hi, I am wondering what the readers of this list are using to control their ZFS RAID-Z arrays with. A quote from an under answered comment the OpenSolaris device driver forumhttp://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=32610tstart=0: *I'm having a hard time finding any decent