and specific models, and the driver used? Looks like there may be
stability issues with the marvell, which appear to go unanswered..


On 12/21/06, Jason J. W. Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Naveen,

I believe the newer LSI cards work pretty well with Solaris.

Best Regards,
Jason

On 12/20/06, Naveen Nalam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This may not be the right place to post, but hoping someone here is running a 
reliably working system with 12 drives using ZFS that can tell me what hardware 
they are using.
>
> I have on order with my server vendor a pair of 12-drive servers that I want 
to use with ZFS for our company file stores. We're trying to use Supermicro PDSME 
motherboards, and each has two Supermicro MV8 sata cards. Solaris 10U3 he's found 
doesn't work on these systems. And I just read a post today (and an older post) on 
this group about how the Marvell based cards lock up. I can't afford lockups since 
this is very critical and expensive data that is being stored.
>
> My goal is a single cpu board that works with Solaris, and somehow get 
12-drives plus 2 system boot drives plugged into it. I don't see any suitable sata 
cards on the Sun HCL.
>
> Are there any 4-port PCIe cards that people know reliably work? The Adaptec 
1430SA looks nice, but no idea if it works. I could potentially get two 4-port 
PCIe cards, a 2 port PCI sata card (for boot), and 4-port motherboard - for 14 
drives total. And cough up the extra cash for a supported dual-cpu motherboard 
(though i'm only using one cpu).
>
> any advice greatly appreciated..
>
> Thanks!
> Naveen
>
>
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