And I can certainly vouch for that series of chipsets... I have a 750a-sli chipset (the one below the 790) and the SATA ports (in AHCI mode) Just Work(tm) under nevada / opensolaris.
I'm yet to give it a while on S10, mostly as I pretty much run nevada everywhere... As S10 does indeed have an AHCI driver, I'd expect it would work just fine there too. Oh - and the ports go like stink!* For what it's worth, even with Nevada, you will need the newest NVidia Xorg drivers from nvidia's website to get the video working properly, and will need to add in it's PCI ID's in /etc/driver_aliases (And, as yet, I'm unable to run compiz in a stable way - Tends to hard lock up the machine after about 5 minutes use...), a very new hdaudio driver (I needed a bodgied up one from the Beijing team to make it work) and last I checked, the nvidia ethernet did not work properly without assigning it a valid ethernet address... (The driver misreads the ethernet address and either delivers it backwards, or byte-swaps... I don't remember exactly...) Oh - And just in case you forget, most boards I have seen use IDE mode for the controllers by default, which reeks. Expect less than 15 MB/s if reading and writing at the same time if you forget to change the controller mode to AHCI! For what it's worth, the board I'm using is a giga-byte.. Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. Product: M750SLI-DS4 Which also has the 6 X AHCI ports. It might seem like it'll be a lot of hassle getting it working, but in the ZFS space, it works great pretty much out of the box (plus ethernet address change if the nvidia driver is still busted... ;) Cheers! Nathan. *Going like stink means going like a hairy goat - like lightning - like s*it off a shovel - like a zyrtec - fast. :) Brandon High wrote: > On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 6:49 AM, Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> really had the motivation or the cash to do so yet. I've been keeping my >> eye out for a board that supports the opteron 165 and the wider lane dual >> pci-E slots that isn't stricly a *gaming* board. I'm starting to think the >> combination doesn't exist. > > The AMD 790GX boards are starting to show up: > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128352 > > Dual 8x PCIe slots, integrated video and 6 AHCI SATA ports. > > -B > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
