I am running a home fileserver with a pair of 4-port cheapo Silicon Image 3114 based cards. I had to down-rev the firmware on the cards to make them dumb SATA controllers vs. RAID cards. I bought them at Fry's, they were about $70/ea, they're "SIIG SATA 4-channel RAID", part number appears to be SC-SA4R12. My home fileserver is running something in the neighborood of Nevada build 31 It's been working well for me, and obviously based on the kernel version I haven't had to mess with it much - just fire and forget. :-)
At work, we are exploring the use of Nexenta alpha-6, which is based on build 50. We are using the onboard SATA of the Supermicro H8DAR-T motherboards, which is marvell88sx based. Unfortunately, there are (at least) two versions of this motherboard, which is silkscreened on the back oeft side of the motherboard. With the 1.01 version, the SATA driver does not bind. (I've tried adding the pci-id to the driver_alaises with no love but haven't spent a lot of effort on it since our adoption is still expirimental). The version 2.01 version of the motherboard works fine, though. The specific pci id of the one that works is "pci11ab,6041.9". Although I've also read about the reported marvell88sx driver issues, I have not seen any problems as of yet, and I've done some IO benchmark testing. I am thinking of getting some cheapo silicon image sata-2 cards, and I may also pick up an Areca card, both for benchmarking and for potential use in the 1.01 version of the H8DAR-T systems that we have (Assuming that I cannot get the onboard SATA working on those systems) -A This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
