Wilkinson, Alex wrote:
>     0n Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 12:21:30PM -0500, Andrew M. Hettinger wrote: 
> 
>     >If you want to keep the costs down, and are willing to sacrifice the
>     >ability to use SAS, you might look at these. This is a vary well tested
>     >chipset, as it is the one used in SUN's "thumper" machines, and you would
>     >only need two of them. (It does not have the RAID support that your LSI
>     >has, but you shouldn't be using that with ZFS anyway)
>     >
>     >http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815121009
> 
> I am thinking of doing a similar thing. My motherboard (Abit IP-35 Pro) has 2
> 3Gbps eSATA Ports using a "JMicron JMB363" chipset.
> 
> Does anyone know if OpenSolaris will "just work" with the aforementioned 
> eSATA chipset ?
> 
> I suppose I will then need to find eSATA disk enclosures that will work with
> OpenSolaris to.

Hi Alex,
that card should work ok with the ahci driver

http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6645543
6645543 relax AHCI checks violated by JMicron JMB363 controller


As for enclosures, I've had good experiences with some Enhance
Proavio gear that I got from Silicon Memory in Sydney.
http://www.siliconmemory.com.au/content/enhance/e4-ml.html
They do cables too.



James C. McPherson
--
Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris
Sun Microsystems
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