> Super Micro has an attractive board for low power > home systems: > > ttp://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/ATOM/ICH > 9/X7SPA.cfm?typ=H > > Has anyone already put his hands on that thing, or > knows, if the actual > OpenSolaris build will/does support the compleet > hardware? (Aka: Network, > Graphics, Storage, plus "chipset")?
I purchased this board a couple of weeks ago and using it to run OpenSolaris. The good news is that it seems very well supported. The network, graphics, storage, and chipset all seem to work out of the box. Works with the default 2009.06 install and an image-update to b132. The bad news is that performance and stability seem to be an issue. On my old Intel board (a DP35DP) I could reliably 'dd if=/dev/zero of=foo.bin' and get between 45-60Mb/s on a raid-z 3+1 ZFS pool. With this board I'm getting 12-15Mb/s, which is pretty terrible. Even worse, stability is a problem with USB boot media. The board has a USB port near its 6 SATA ports and I can boot from a thumb drive with no problem, but after a few hours of operation the machine stops responding to cifs share requests with an error message that says "command failed to complete ... device is gone". I tried disabling the hal and rmvolmgr services and now it just fails silently. http://twitpic.com/13fw18 So yeah, while it's a very nice little board that shows a lot of promise it seems like there might be a few bugs that need fixing either by Supermicro or by the Opensolaris dev team. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
