There's plenty of 8 port, either full 8 or 6+2 combinations etc. Anyway I went with a Supermicro PDSME+ which appears to work well according to the HCL, and bought two of the AOC-SAT2-MV8's and will just use those. It's actually being delivered today...
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Joe S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You may need an add-on SATA card. I haven't come across any 8 port > motherboards. > > As far as chipsets are concerned, take a look at something with the > Intel X38 chipset. It's the only one of the desktop chipsets that > supports ECC ram. Coincidentally, it's also the chipset used in the > Sun Ultra 24 workstation > (http://www.sun.com/desktop/workstation/ultra24/index.xml). > > > On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 1:41 PM, mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I posted a thread here... >> http://forums.opensolaris.com/thread.jspa?threadID=596 >> >> I am trying to finish building a system and I kind of need to pick >> working NIC and onboard SATA chipsets (video is not a big deal - I can >> get a silent PCIe card for that, I already know one which works great) >> >> I need 8 onboard SATA. I would prefer Intel CPU. At least one gigabit >> port. That's about it. >> >> I built a list in that thread of all the options I found from the >> major manufacturers that Newegg has as the pool of possible >> chipsets/etc... any help is appreciated (anyone actually using any of >> these) - and remember I'm trying to use Nevada out of the box, not >> have to download specific drivers and tweak all this myself... >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
