> So I was hoping that this board would work: [...]GA-M57SLI-S4 I've been looking at that very same board for the very same purpose. It has 2 gb nics, 6 sata ports, supports ECC memory and is passively cooled. And it's very cheap compared to most systems that people recommend for running OpenSolaris on. (A GA-M57SLI-S4, an Athlon64 LE-1620 and 2 * 1GB 800MHz DDR2 ECC all together sum up to a total of only 165-175 € here, which is a lot less than what the recommended SATA cards cost. Add 3 500GB disks and you have a pretty nice raid-z system for only a total of 440 € (assuming you already have a case and PSU, which I do). Or you could use 3 1TB disks instead and add a good UPS and still have the whole package for less than 1000 €.)
There are not many reports about the nforce 570 sli chipset, but several people have got the nforce 570 chipset working without problems. Here is a system with the GA-M57SLI-S4 in the HCL: http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/data/systems/details/2714.html It says the SATA ports run in "Legacy Mode" (which means no hotswap or NCQ, but I don't know if it has any other downsides, anyone?) in Solaris Express Developer Edition 05/07. However, there seems to have been new MCP55 (all nf570 are mcp55-based) drivers released since then: http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6296435 Has anyone tested the "new" mcp55 drivers with the sata ports on an nforce 570 sli motherboard? - Marcus _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
