Re: [zfs-discuss] Finding SATA cards for ZFS; was Lundman home NAS

2009-11-10 Thread Robin Bowes
On 01/09/09 08:26, James Andrewartha wrote: Jorgen Lundman wrote: The mv8 is a marvell based chipset, and it appears there are no Solaris drivers for it. There doesn't appear to be any movement from Sun or marvell to provide any either. Do you mean specifically Marvell 6480 drivers? I use

Re: [zfs-discuss] Finding SATA cards for ZFS; was Lundman home NAS

2009-09-01 Thread James Andrewartha
Jorgen Lundman wrote: The mv8 is a marvell based chipset, and it appears there are no Solaris drivers for it. There doesn't appear to be any movement from Sun or marvell to provide any either. Do you mean specifically Marvell 6480 drivers? I use both DAC-SATA-MV8 and AOC-SAT2-MV8, which use

Re: [zfs-discuss] Finding SATA cards for ZFS; was Lundman home NAS

2009-08-31 Thread Jorgen Lundman
The mv8 is a marvell based chipset, and it appears there are no Solaris drivers for it. There doesn't appear to be any movement from Sun or marvell to provide any either. Do you mean specifically Marvell 6480 drivers? I use both DAC-SATA-MV8 and AOC-SAT2-MV8, which use Marvell MV88SX and

Re: [zfs-discuss] Finding SATA cards for ZFS; was Lundman home NAS

2009-08-31 Thread Tim Cook
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Jorgen Lundman lund...@gmo.jp wrote: The mv8 is a marvell based chipset, and it appears there are no Solaris drivers for it. There doesn't appear to be any movement from Sun or marvell to provide any either. Do you mean specifically Marvell 6480 drivers? I

Re: [zfs-discuss] Finding SATA cards for ZFS; was Lundman home NAS

2009-08-30 Thread Maurilio Longo
Robin, LSI 3041er and 3081er are pci-e 4 and 8 ports sata cards; they are not hot-swap capable, as far as I know, but do work very well (I'm using several of them) in jbod and they're not too expensive. See this

Re: [zfs-discuss] Finding SATA cards for ZFS; was Lundman home NAS

2009-08-29 Thread Robin Bowes
On 03/08/09 17:35, Neal Pollack wrote: On 07/31/09 06:12 PM, Jorgen Lundman wrote: Finding a SATA card that would work with Solaris, and be hot-swap, and more than 4 ports, sure took a while. Oh and be reasonably priced ;) Let's take this first point; card that works with Solaris I

Re: [zfs-discuss] Finding SATA cards for ZFS; was Lundman home NAS

2009-08-03 Thread Neal Pollack
On 07/31/09 06:12 PM, Jorgen Lundman wrote: Finding a SATA card that would work with Solaris, and be hot-swap, and more than 4 ports, sure took a while. Oh and be reasonably priced ;) Let's take this first point; card that works with Solaris I might try to find some engineers to write

Re: [zfs-discuss] Finding SATA cards for ZFS; was Lundman home NAS

2009-08-03 Thread Nathan Fiedler
I have not carried out any research into this area, but when I was building my home server I wanted to use a Promise SATA-PCI card, but alas (Open)Solaris has no support at all for the Promise chipsets. Instead I used a rather old card based on the sil3124 chipset. n On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 9:35