Hi, I am a new French user of OpenSolaris (used to be on FreeBSD and Linux before).
I want to "build" a file server (NAS) using ZFS and a 8 hard drives RAIDZ. For now I have these hardware : - Motherboard : Tyan Toledo i3010W - Processor : Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 (1,86Ghz - 1066MTs - 4096Ko) - RAM : 4x Crucial DDRII 2Go (667Mhz - ECC Unbuffered) - SATAII Controller Card : 2x Sil-3124 (4 ports SATAII, PCI-X) - OS Hard Drive : Transcend SSD Drive 8Go SLC SATA - ZIL Hard Drive : Gigabyte i-RAM SATA + 4x 1Go DDR (400Mhz - Low Density) - DATA Hard Drives : 8x Hitachi Deskstar P7K500 500Go SATAII - Rack : 8x Icy Box IB-168SK-B - Power Supply : Antec Earthwatts 430 - Case : Sharkoon Rebel9 Economy Edition Noir - Processor Radiator : Noctua NH-U12 + Arctic Silver 5 - Fan : 4x Noctua NF-P12 I still have not receive my two Sil-3124 cards, but I have some second thoughts or regrets... I read many times on different forum (including this one) that the si3124 driver is not really fine (no NCQ for exemple, some bug...) but I have already bought these cards. So I wonder what SATAII controller non-RAID card is really fully compatible with OpenSolaris ? (some references please) I need to plug 8 SATAII hard drives and I have 2 PCI-X available on my motherboard. Thank you and sorry for all my language mistake. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
