Al Hopper wrote: > On Wed, 6 Feb 2008, Dave wrote: > >> Just looked into add-in cards to get around the issue. Unfortunately >> the Tyan 2927 boards have only PCI-E and 32 bit PCI slots. I can't >> find any PCI-E SATA HBAs that have the Marvell 88SX chips, either. > > Yep - the lack of a cost-effective PCI-E board is an issue currently > hurting widespread ZFS adoption/experimentation. If only Sun would > come to the rescuse (hint, hint). You could look at an LsiLogic SAS > board with a PCI-E connector. I've also heard that some users have > found the SuperMicro board to work in a 32-bit slot and others have > found that it won't. I have no clue as to why this is the case. > > The only other alternative I'm aware of is a 3124 based PCI card. Let > me check the solaris on x86 (yahoo) list and email you a > recommendation. I think Bob Palowoda found a card that works... (I've > CCed him). > I used a PCI-E SATA controller based on 3132 card from Addonics. I wrote about it in this little article. http://www.fiver.net/misc/athlon64_2nd_round.html which has the url to the model. Addonics has been good marking which SATA models they sell run on Solaris on their website. http://www.addonics.com
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