0n Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 08:47:24PM +1000, James C. McPherson wrote:
>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.
Great! Thanks stacks for the info James!
-aW
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