I think two SI3124 cards (each with 4 downstream ports) may satisfy you.
They are cheap and well supported in opensolaris.
http://www.siliconimage.com/products/product.aspx?pid=27
In this way you could use any MB that has two PCI/PCI-X slots.
Regards,
Xiaoyu
George Thanos wrote:
hi all
one small question i need to have 8 sata HDDs on a "normal" pc and
install opensolaris.
i bought the AOC-SASLP-MV8 after the suggestions from the guyz below
http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=476081񴎱
but it seems that it is not working
my mobo is an ASUS P5G41T-M LX
http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=TOOAPqOMZFVMI9Ji
and i want to install a SATA controller with 8 ports on the PCIe x16
(the one i already purchased is x4 but it works fine even in windows and
freenas)
would you be kind enough to suggest a board like that (i dont care about
raid i will use ZFS)
many many thanx in advance
PS : is this is the wrong way to ask this please accept my appologies in
advance and let me know where to forward my question
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