I like this board because it supports AMD's new quad-core Barcelona CPUs
with split-power plane while having 2 PCIe x8 and 8 on-board SAS ports
(going through a built-in PCIe x8) - that means I can pick up two LSI
SAS3081E-R HBAs for a total of 24 SAS ports (over 3 PCIe x8) to run ZFS
on :)
But I can't verify if the board will work with OpenSolaris! - its too
new to show up in the HCL...
From its data sheet, the board has the following chips on it:
* nVidia nForce 3600
* NEC uPD720400
* LSI SAS1068E
* Marvell 88E1121
* ATI ES1000 Graphics
* SMSC DME5017
* AMI BIOS
I figure it will work if I can find each of those chips - true?
From the HCL, these are the other Tyan boards that are known to work:
S4985: has no chips in common
S3992: has ATI ES1000 Graphics and AMI BIOS
S2865: has no chips in common
S2877: has no chips in common
S2881: has no chips in common
Any ideas how I can fill in the blanks? - I tried searching HCL on the
chips, but didn't get any hits...
Focusing on the nForce 3600, I googled for: solaris "nForce 3600"
and got two-pages of hits in languages I don't understand except for
this (http://marc.info/?l=opensolaris-discuss&m=118341595901373&w=2),
which suggests that the Ultra 40 workstation has it, though I can't
verify that since its motherboard information isn't posted on the Sun
website
Any advise?
Thanks,
Kent
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