> Ross, > > The X4500 uses 6x Marvell 88SX SATA controllers for > its internal disks. They are not Supermicro > controllers. The new X4540 uses an LSI chipset > instead of the Marvell chipset. > > --Brett
Yup, and the Supermicro card uses the "Marvell Hercules-2 88SX6081 (Rev. C0) SATA Host Controller", which is part of the series supported by the same driver: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-5177/marvell88sx-7d?a=view. I've seen the Supermicro card mentioned in connection with the Thumpers many times on the forums. And Supermicro have a card using the LSI chipset now too:http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/AOC-USAS-L8i.cfm I don't know if that's the same one as the new Thumper, but posts here have implied it is. Either Sun & Supermicro have very similar taste in controllers, or Supermicro are looking at ZFS and actively copying Sun :) This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
