the onboard sata is a secondary issue.  If i need to, i'll boot from the
oboard usb slots.  I have 2 LSI 1068e based sas controllers which i will be
using.


On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 8:40 PM, James C. McPherson <j...@opensolaris.org>wrote:

> On 12/05/10 10:32 AM, Michael DeMan wrote:
>
>> I agree on the motherboard and peripheral chipset issue.
>>
>> This, and the last generation AMD quad/six core motherboards
>>
> > all seem to use the AMD SP56x0/SP5100 chipset, which I can't
> > find much information about support on for either OpenSolaris or FreeBSD.
>
> If you can get the device driver detection utility to run
> on it, that will give you a reasonable idea.
>
>
>  Another issue is the LSI SAS2008 chipset for SAS controller
>>
> > which is frequently offered as an onboard option for many motherboards
> > as well and still seems to be somewhat of a work in progress in
> > regards to being 'production ready'.
>
> What metric are you using for "production ready" ?
> Are there features missing which you expect to see
> in the driver, or is it just "oh noes, I haven't
> seen enough big customers with it" ?
>
>
> James C. McPherson
> --
> Senior Software Engineer, Solaris
> Oracle
> http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog
>
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