Thanks for the Areca recommendation. My vendor was initially proposing the Areca as well. I had thought that the Supermicro MV8 would be better since two cards total only $200 vs the $700 for a 12-port Areca card, and thought that the MV8 would have good support since Thumper uses the Marvell 88sx6081 sata chipset (which I believe is what the MV8 uses as well).
We've gotten Solaris to load on a newer motherboard - the Supermicro PDSME+ which is an update to the Supermicro PDSME. I guess I will stick with the MV8 for now, and if issues arise - replace them with an Areca card or whatever else ppl suggest. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
