Christopher Chan wrote:
Okay. Any news on port multiplexer support?
It is on the list of things to do, but it is not at
top of the stack.
I hope Open Solaris gets it soon. Linux is probably halfway there as
they have had some code for some time.
Demand from our customers drives our priorities.
^O^ Nobody has recognised the potential of ZFS + stacks and stacks of
cheap fast SATA drives?
I believe that this is realized and is being worked.
BTW, the SunFire x4500 is basically what you are describing.
I guess there is not enough eSATA/SATA controllers out there...if I had
not found this SI3124 card and dug out Solaris' driver support of this
chip, I would have been really stumped as to what I would get for my
proposed backup server with Solaris as the OS. Plan A with 5 drive
external enclosure had to be shelved and Plan B with two 750GB SATA
drivers in single drive enclosures used instead. Good thing I still have
two extra eSATA ports for future expansion.
Please give us feedback with respect to how the si3124 driver works
for you.
Also the marvell88sx driver (for Marvell 88SX50xx and 88SX60x1)
works well. There is also now support for ICH6 and the VT8251
(AHCI compliant) controllers.
If I had not discovered this SI3124 card and dug out Open Solaris' new
SATA framework and the si3124 driver...I would have no choice but to go
to Linux.
Is the SATA framework in Solaris 10?
In Solaris 10 Update 2 and later it is present.
That plus the great way one can
export a ZFS volume as an iSCSI target makes Solaris a really great
choice for the basis of a storage server if everything is in place. I am
sure demand is there...the problem is that Solaris is not quite fully
there to serve it and that people do not know that Solaris is already in
position for small deployments.
It is getting there.
Regards,
Lida
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