Re: [zfs-discuss] Supported Motherboard SATA controller chipsets?

2009-08-07 Thread Volker A. Brandt
Hello Kyle! Sorry for the late answer. Be careful with nVidia if you want to use Samsung SATA disks. There is a problem with the disk freezing up. This bit me with our X2100M2 and X2200M2 systems. I don't know if it's related to your issue, but I have also seen comments around about

Re: [zfs-discuss] Supported Motherboard SATA controller chipsets?

2009-08-04 Thread Kyle McDonald
Volker A. Brandt wrote: I'm currently trying to decide between a MB with that chipset and another that uses the nVidia 780a and nf200 south bridge. Is the nVidia SATA controller well supported? (in AHCI mode?) Be careful with nVidia if you want to use Samsung SATA disks. There is a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Supported Motherboard SATA controller chipsets?

2009-08-03 Thread Brandon High
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Kyle McDonaldkmcdon...@egenera.com wrote: I think I've read that the AMD 790FX/750SB chipset's SATA controller is upported, but may have recently had bugs? I think the SB700 / SB750 problem was related to doing DMA transfers with more than 4GB of memory. I think