> By the way, one of the PCIe slots has an angle
> adapter so I can attach a graphical adapter to this
> one. Or since you mentioned 'workstation', I could
> actually build the whole motherboard in a workstation
> frame so I would get rid of the excessive vacuum
> cleaner sound.
> In the end I paid this server 400 euro which is
> fairly price I think.
> 

This is an Extended ATX board so you need a chassie  for EATX  boards.

> I first installed Solaris 10, but this was hanging
> all the time (upon init 5-6) when updating.
> So I installed OpenSolaris and for so far it runs
> fairly well. During installation setup it just took
> extremely long before it could find the four hard
> disks
> 

   Proably ,  We never tried S10.

> Just two questions:
> When adding two identical graphical adapters is there
> anything you need to take into account?
> I' m just wondering since you have two identical
> cards on the same bus. However one is closer to the
> CPU(s) than the other. 
> 

You need  the  SLI Bridge connectors .  two Cables that are connected 
betweenthe 
Graphics cards.  These connectors are usually shipped with the moterboard and 
are not included with the graphic cards. 


> This S2892 motherboard has RAID, did you also manage
> to configure this? 
> I had to disable the RAID to make the disks visible.

 Yeah,   run  ZFS   instead,  SOlaris is sadly missing the drivers for  
Pc-windows 
RAID  solutions. 

 //Lars
 
 
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