I have a $500 Apple PCI-X HBA (with a SFP connector) in a V20z (Solaris 10 GA 
3/05) using the LSI Logic 64-bit drivers for Solaris 10/x86 (the Apple card is 
a OEM-ed LSI7202XP). It has been running for about a month now. My home 
directory is on it, so I would know if there was a problem :-)

We have the same HBAs running on Sun E420Rs in production for over a year with 
XServe RAID as storage units, they works quite well.

Famous last words... We have been prepping a new Sun V440R with two of those 
cards for an upgrade, and during burn-in, it now won't even boot in single-user 
mode, with the following message:

Rebooting with command: boot
Boot device: disk  File and args:
SunOS Release 5.10 Version Generic 64-bit
Copyright 1983-2005 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
Hardware watchdog enabled
WARNING: itmpt0: doorbell = 40003216
WARNING: itmpt0: IssueIocReset, adapter failed to come ready (40003216)
WARNING: itmpt0: doorbell = 40003216
WARNING: itmpt0: IssueIocReset, adapter failed to come ready (40003216)
(keeps on doing this)

probably a hardware failure on one of the cards, but it is worrisome that a 
card can take the system down - FC multipathing wouldn't help here.
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