Must support Xeon 5100 series (Woodcrest) chips (I have 2, but I can settle with just one) E-ATX form factor At least 2 onboard SATA ports At least 2 PCI-X 133mhz capable slots
That's it. For example: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon1333/5100/X7DCA-i.cfm Something like that looks like it meets all the needs. According to the HCL, it's all supported, I think. But I've ran into issues at least with regression in Opensolaris. It works in one version, does not work in the upgrade... Onboard SATA - Intel ICH9R SB SATAII Controller - looks like a TON of other mobos are using this without issue Network - Intel Dual 82573V/L Gigabit Ethernet Controller: http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/data/components/details/1237.html I plan on using this with two Supermicro AOC-SATA-MV8 or whatever cards, and using the onboard SATA for the mirrored boot drives. I have a similar setup at home just with a single processor that I purchased myself (and in this case, the company has supplied the woodcrests) The cheapest one possible to do the job is the best. So far this is the cheapest I've found (sub $300) TIA. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
