I've lucked into some big disks, so I'm thinking of biting the bullet (screaming loudly in the process) and superceding the SATA controllers on my motherboard with something that will work with hot-swap in Solaris. (did I mention before I'm still pissed about this?) I have enough to populate all 8 bays (meaning adding 4 disks to what I have now), so the 6 ports on the motherboard don't quite cover it anyway, and getting hotswap working was kind of the point of spending $2000 on the new server.
But, as always, the problem is in finding a controller that Solaris supports, including hotswap. The last guy I remember going through this here ended up still scrod because the board he got had a -7 instead of -9 variant of the controller chip and it *still* didn't work. I might be able to use 2 4-port boards; I'm not absolutely sure I have 2 PCI-X slots (I'm away from home this week). So can the combined wisdom of these lists point me to an exact vendor and part-number of a PCI-X board for an AMD Opteron system that Solaris supports SATA and hot-swap with? Note I said "vendor"; I'd like to know that the batch a vendor has actually works with Solaris, since it seems fairly random whether any particular batch does or not. At least 4-port, preferably 8-port. And, of course, very cheap :-). I'm currently running snv_44, and don't expect to drop backwards a lot from there. If I need to add an available driver or configure tables or something, cool (but I'll need pointers to what needs to be done); I don't insist that it work out-of-the-box, just that I be able to get it working. -- David Dyer-Bennet, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/> RKBA: <http://www.dd-b.net/carry/> Pics: <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/> Dragaera/Steven Brust: <http://dragaera.info/> _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
