I am helping a friend who is build a storage server for his company and I have advocated for Solaris and ZFS.
But now we are having trouble to find any good SATA controller for 12+ disks, there are Areca cards, but they seems very flaky (24 port support, but hangs with more than 12 in JBOD mode, hangs on disk failures etc). The AOC-SAT2-MV8,AOC-USAS-L8i have been mentioned, but it had problems with device numbering and/or as I understood it no support for hot plugging. Isn't there any supported PCI.* SATA card with at least 12 ports that do work and have a real driver supporting hot plugging/cfgadm- operations? The HCL does not tell you everything, and scanning the lists did not show any consensus regarding this. This seems to have been a problem for years, I tried to find a card for myself a while back. Henrik Johansson http://sparcv9.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
