Re: [zfs-discuss] Home Motherboard

2007-11-23 Thread Vincent Fox
H, well depends on what you are looking for. Is the speed not enough, or the size of RAM? I am thinking people found out the original GLY would actually work with a 2-gig DIMM. So it's possible the GLY2 will accept 2-gig also, which seems plenty for me. YMMV. This message posted fro

Re: [zfs-discuss] Home Motherboard

2007-11-23 Thread Andy Lubel
: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Home Motherboard mike wrote: > I actually have a related motherboard, chassis, dual power-supplies > and 12x400 gig drives already up on ebay too. If I recall Areca cards > are supported in OpenSolaris... At the moment you can down

Re: [zfs-discuss] Home Motherboard

2007-11-22 Thread James C. McPherson
mike wrote: > I actually have a related motherboard, chassis, dual power-supplies > and 12x400 gig drives already up on ebay too. If I recall Areca cards > are supported in OpenSolaris... At the moment you can download the Areca "arcmsr" driver from areca.com.tw, but I'm in the process of integrat

Re: [zfs-discuss] Home Motherboard

2007-11-22 Thread Nathan Kroenert
I was interested in that one till I read: One 240-pin DDR2 SDRAM Dual Inline Memory Module (DIMM) sockets Support for DDR2 667 MHz, DDR2 533 MHz and DDR2 400 MHz DIMMs (DDR 667 MHz validated to run at 533 MHz only) Support for up to 1 GB of system memory Boo!!! :) Nathan. Vincent Fox wrote: >

Re: [zfs-discuss] Home Motherboard

2007-11-22 Thread Rob Logan
> with 4 cores and 2-4G of ram. not sure 2G is enough... at least with 64bit there are no kernel space issues. 6 % echo '::memstat' | mdb -k Page SummaryPagesMB %Tot Kernel 692075

Re: [zfs-discuss] Home Motherboard

2007-11-22 Thread mike
I actually have a related motherboard, chassis, dual power-supplies and 12x400 gig drives already up on ebay too. If I recall Areca cards are supported in OpenSolaris... http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300172982498 On 11/22/07, Jason P. Warr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you

Re: [zfs-discuss] Home Motherboard

2007-11-22 Thread Rob Logan
here is a simple layout for 6 disks toward "speed" : /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s1 - - swap- no - /dev/dsk/c0t1d0s1 - - swap- no - root/snv_77 - / zfs - no - z/snv_77/usr - /usr zfs - yes - z/snv_77/var -

Re: [zfs-discuss] Home Motherboard

2007-11-22 Thread Vincent Fox
The new Intel D201GLY2 looks quite good. Fanless 64-bit CPU, low-power consumption from what I have read. Awaiting first substantive review from SilentPCReview.com before ordering one. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailin

Re: [zfs-discuss] Home Motherboard

2007-11-22 Thread Jason P. Warr
If you want a board that is a steal look at this one: http://www.ascendtech.us/itemdesc.asp?ic=MBTAS2882G3NR Tyan S2882, Dual Socket 940 Opteron, 8 DDR slots, 2 PCI-X 133 busses with 2 slots each, Dual Core support. $80. Pair is with a couple of Opteron 270's from ebay for $195: http://cgi.e