Buy a 2-port SATA II PCI-E x1 SiI3132 controller ($20). The solaris driver is very stable.
Or, a solution I would personally prefer, don't use a 7th disk. Partition each of your 6 disks with a small ~7-GB slice at the beginning and the rest of the disk for ZFS. Install the OS in one of the small slices. This will only reduce your usable ZFS storage space by <1% (and you may have to manually enable write cache because ZFS won't be given entire disks, only slices) but: (1) you save a disk and a controller and money and related hassles (the reason why you post here :P), (2) you can mirror your OS on the other small slices using SVM or a ZFS mirror to improve reliability, and (3) this setup allows you to easily experiment with parallel installs of different opensolaris versions in the other slices. -marc _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
