Re: [zfs-discuss] Supported Motherboard SATA controller chipsets?
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 the nv-sata windows drivers hanging up when formatting drives than 1024GB. But that's been fixed in the latest nvidia windows drivers. Does that sound related, or like something different? Something different. The problem with the X2100M2 and X2200M2 will only occur with specific Samsung disk models, in my case the HD103UJ 1 TB disk. The system will work fine, until suddenly the disk freezes up. The disk is then no longer recognized at all. It will not respond to any command whatsoever. After a power cycle, the disks is fine -- until the next freeze. I think the same happened to some people on the 'net with the 750GB variant of the same disk, but I have only seen it with the 1 TB type. Regards -- Volker -- Volker A. Brandt Consulting and Support for Sun Solaris Brandt Brandt Computer GmbH WWW: http://www.bb-c.de/ Am Wiesenpfad 6, 53340 Meckenheim Email: v...@bb-c.de Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Bonn, HRB 10513 Schuhgröße: 45 Geschäftsführer: Rainer J. H. Brandt und Volker A. Brandt ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
Re: [zfs-discuss] Supported Motherboard SATA controller chipsets?
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 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 the nv-sata windows drivers hanging up when formatting drives than 1024GB. But that's been fixed in the latest nvidia windows drivers. Does that sound related, or like something different? -Kyle Regards -- Volker ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
[zfs-discuss] Supported Motherboard SATA controller chipsets?
Hi all, I think I've read that the AMD 790FX/750SB chipset's SATA controller is upported, but may have recently had bugs? 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?) At the moment I'm leaning toward that MB (ASUS M3N-HT) since it seems to still be available. Where as the AMD one (ASUS M3A79-T) seems harder to find. There is the ASUS M4A79T which is almost the same board, but it has 1 less SATA port - Which is also the reason I'm not looking at the M4N82 nVidia board. I wanted to run all this through something like the driver detection tool, but since I haven't bought the boards yet, that's kind of tough. -Kyle ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
Re: [zfs-discuss] Supported Motherboard SATA controller chipsets?
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 the chip set lies about 64 bit support. I'm not sure where I read that, however, so you should verify on your own. -B -- Brandon High : bh...@freaks.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
