FYI, nvsata integrated into b72 for MCP55. http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/on/flag-days/all/
[and there was much rejoicing :-)] -- richard Nathan Kroenert wrote: > For what it's worth, I bought a Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4 a couple of months > ago and it rocks on a reasonably current Nevada. > > Certainly not the cheapest or most expensive, but I felt a good choice > for multiple PCI-E slots and a couple of PCI slots. > > http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Spec.aspx?ClassValue=Motherboard&ProductID=2287&ProductName=GA-M57SLI-S4 > > Everything on it worked a treat for me, and paired with an Nvidia > 7900GS, has handled pretty much whatever I have thrown at it, including > Second Life on Solaris. :) > > On Nevada (at the time I build it, it was NV_65), everything just worked > straight out of the box. Gig Ethernet, IDE ports, SATA ports (in > compatability mode), USB, 1394, audio, dual core stuff, the lot. > > SATA ports work fine and dandy (up to about 70MB/S per port on the outer > edge of the disk using Seagate 320GB 16MB cache 7200RPM disks) using the > IDE emulation. I'm waiting for the build of nevada that provides the > Nvidia MCP55 SATA controller support for native SATA stuff. Not long > now... ZFS seems to be able to write down the channel's at about > 80MB/s... (At least on a brand spanking new Zpool. Seems closer to > 60MB/s now...) > > Once the Nvidia SATA stuff goes back, you'll have 6 ports of NVidia SATA > goodness straight off the board. (and even now, you have 6 ports of > reasonable speedyness in good old ATA mode.) > > From what I can tell, the Nvidia SATA devices hang straight off the > PCI-E bus, so you might even be able to get 'em all running flat out. > (Though, I'm basing this on the output of the prtconf, I could be > completely wrong.) See bottom of post for the prtconf -D output. > > I'm also running it as a Solaris Xen Dom0 with other OS/s lurking on top > of that, so the HVM support also works great. > > I have just submitted this board to the HCL for SXDE, and if I get a > chance, I'll pull the latest S10 and give that a whirl too. > > Hope this helps. (and excuse the prtconf being from the Xen boot, rather > than bare metal... got a bit of stuff happening on the box at the moment > and did not feel like rebooting. ;) > > /root # prtconf -D > System Configuration: Sun Microsystems i86pc > Memory size: 3895 Megabytes > System Peripherals (Software Nodes): > > i86xpv (driver name: rootnex) > scsi_vhci, instance #0 (driver name: scsi_vhci) > isa, instance #0 (driver name: isa) > fdc, instance #0 (driver name: fdc) > fd, instance #0 (driver name: fd) > asy, instance #0 (driver name: asy) > lp, instance #0 (driver name: ecpp) > i8042, instance #0 (driver name: i8042) > keyboard, instance #0 (driver name: kb8042) > motherboard > xpvd, instance #0 (driver name: xpvd) > xencons, instance #0 (driver name: xencons) > xenbus, instance #0 (driver name: xenbus) > domcaps, instance #0 (driver name: domcaps) > balloon, instance #0 (driver name: balloon) > evtchn, instance #0 (driver name: evtchn) > privcmd, instance #0 (driver name: privcmd) > pci, instance #0 (driver name: npe) > pci1458,5001 > pci1458,c11 > pci1458,c11 > pci1458,c11 > pci1458,5004, instance #0 (driver name: ohci) > mouse, instance #1 (driver name: hid) > pci1458,5004, instance #0 (driver name: ehci) > pci-ide, instance #0 (driver name: pci-ide) > ide, instance #0 (driver name: ata) > sd, instance #1 (driver name: sd) > sd, instance #0 (driver name: sd) > ide (driver name: ata) > pci-ide, instance #1 (driver name: pci-ide) > ide, instance #2 (driver name: ata) > cmdk, instance #0 (driver name: cmdk) > ide, instance #3 (driver name: ata) > cmdk, instance #1 (driver name: cmdk) > pci-ide, instance #2 (driver name: pci-ide) > ide (driver name: ata) > ide (driver name: ata) > pci-ide, instance #3 (driver name: pci-ide) > ide (driver name: ata) > ide (driver name: ata) > pci10de,370, instance #0 (driver name: pci_pci) > pci8086,1e, instance #0 (driver name: e1000g) > pci1458,1000, instance #0 (driver name: hci1394) > pci1458,a002, instance #0 (driver name: audiohd) > pci1458,e000, instance #0 (driver name: nge) > pci10de,377, instance #0 (driver name: pcie_pci) > display, instance #0 (driver name: nvidia) > pci1022,1100 (driver name: mc-amd) > pci1022,1101 (driver name: mc-amd) > pci1022,1102 (driver name: mc-amd) > pci1022,1103, instance #0 (driver name: amd64_gart) > iscsi, instance #0 (driver name: iscsi) > pseudo, instance #0 (driver name: pseudo) > options, instance #0 (driver name: options) > agpgart, instance #0 (driver name: agpgart) > xsvc, instance #0 (driver name: xsvc) > used-resources > cpus > cpu, instance #0 > cpu, instance #1 > > > Nathan. > > Ben Middleton wrote: >> I've just purchased an Asus P5K WS, which seems to work OK. I had to >> download the Marvell Yukon ethernet driver - but it's all working fine. It's >> also got a PCI-X slot - so I have one of those Super Micro 8 port SATA cards >> - providing a total of 16 SATA ports across the system. Other specs are one >> of those Intel E6750 1333MHz FSB CPUs and 2Gb of matched memory. >> >> Ben. >> >> >> This message posted from opensolaris.org >> _______________________________________________ >> zfs-discuss mailing list >> zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
