For as far as I know you need to check the solaris 10 HCL list before you buy any (e)SATA card. And for what I know the Supermicro SATA (RAID) cards have a chip that works with solaris 10.
-----Original Message----- From: Dan Swartzendruber [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: zondag 29 mei 2011 17:54 To: 'Discussion list for OpenIndiana' Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] A good and reliable SATA PCI interface for a Supermicro X7BSi MB and OI148? -----Original Message----- From: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2011 11:53 AM To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] A good and reliable SATA PCI interface for a Supermicro X7BSi MB and OI148? > > Message: 2 > > Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 12:35:05 +0200 (CEST) > > From: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk<[email protected]> > > To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana > > <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] A good and reliable SATA PCI > > interface for a Supermicro X7BSi MB and OI148? > > Message-ID:<31113433.0.1306665305717.JavaMail.root@zimbra> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > > >> Can anyone suggest a good and reliable eSATA PCI interface for a > >> Supermicro X7BSi MB and OI148? Preferably 4 or 6 eSATA ports > >> > >> To be used in a RaidZ2 config with 8 or 10 2TB relatively cheap > >> disks. > >> 4 connected to the MB SATA II ports, and 4 or 6 on the external. > > Any particular reason for not using SAS with this? LSI 1068 work > > well and are affordable if not cheap. They only support 3Gbps SAS, > > but then, you probably won't need more. The LSI 1068E has external > > connectors. > An LSI 1068 is a chip, not a PCI card. Sure, but there are several cheap boards using it. Btw, are you sure you want a PCI card, not a PCI Express card? *** Good point. It isn't hard to saturate the PCI bus nowadays... _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
