hi jsp i have not tried sata multiplier support. but to be honest, i do not expect that as a way to have a server without too many problems.
see also: http://www.nexenta.org/boards/1/topics/64 also usb booting. although it may work, why do you want to boot from a slow usb stick instead of a nearly same priced , same power-hungry but more reliable 2,5" drive on such a high-end board with a 2,5" drive-bay i always use 2 x 2,5" raid-1 drives for my zfs boot drive in nexenta, all with zfs- software raid-1, on my vmware esxi server as hardware raid-1 (raidsonic) if you need more than 6 sata ports, i strongly suggest to use a separate controller. i can recommend sas controller with lsi 1068 chip ex http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/AOC-USASLP-L8i.cfm (8 x sas internal, about 100 euro). although it is uio (left side mounted chips), i never had problems to install it and its perfect for opensolaris/nexenta. i use about 8 of them. hope it helps gea -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
