Hi,
I am wondering what the readers of this list are using to control their
ZFS & RAID-Z arrays with.
A quote from an under answered comment the OpenSolaris device driver
forum<http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=32610&tstart=0>:
*I'm having a hard time finding any decent motherboard that will work with
OpenSolaris. I don't have high requirements, only:
- 6 (or more) SATA ports (with the future in mind I guess some AHCI
controller should be best)
- a gigabit port (or two)
- 4 DDR2 @ 800MHz
- some PCI-Express slots
As you can see, these are very modest specs, except that most mobos still
come with only 4 sata ports, although 6 isn't very uncommon either (a mobo
with 4 sata ports and a cheap pci-e card with at least 2 sata ports would be
ok, too). One would think that it'd be quite easy to find at least one
suitable cheap mainstream (i.e., not any super-expensive server hardware)
mobo that OpenSolaris would work on, but this task seems to be impossible.
I've been looking through these forums (and Google) for several tens of
hours, but without luck. I've only found people recommending obsolete
hardware (yesterday's tech is quite expensive and hard to find), or people
saying stuff like "after tweaking a gazillion undocumented parameters in a
patch to the driver and recompiling it I finally got it working, but it's
slow and it might be causing some short freezes or lockups" (not quite what
one would want), or "go out and buy stuff and then when you get it you can
let us know what works" (as if everyone has time to test and money to blow
on loads of mobos to find one that works), or "this particular revision of
this particular chip works well" (and then it turns out to be impossible to
find any decent products that actually has that chip in it).
I personally know several people who want to buy a mobo for running
OpenSolaris on, but don't know which one to buy. If I were to buy one I
would only accept relatively cheap mobos that are widely available, so that
my friends then could easily buy the same hardware when I let them know that
mine works well.
So, does anyone have, or know of, some suitable motherboard?
*As it happens I too am looking for such a board and getting the same
answers. The OpenSolaris HCL
<http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/index.html>is outdated and not really
helpful. The AHCI
driver
project<http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/device_drivers/projects/AHCI/>(which
appears to be the crux of the question) has not been update recently
(perhaps it has never been updated) and promises compatibility with an old
short lived Intel part and VIA part I am unfamiliar with.
Does anyone on this list have experience with a recent board with 6 or more
SATA ports that they know is supported?
Thanks!
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