On 03/08/09 17:35, Neal Pollack wrote: > On 07/31/09 06:12 PM, Jorgen Lundman wrote: >> >> Finding a SATA card that would work with Solaris, and be hot-swap, and >> more than 4 ports, sure took a while. Oh and be reasonably priced ;) > > Let's take this first point; "card that works with Solaris...." > > I might try to find some engineers to write device drivers to > improve this situation. > Would this alias be interested in teaching me which 3 or 4 cards they would > put at the top of the "wish list" for Solaris support? > I assume the current feature gap is defined as needing driver support > for PCI-express add-in cards that have 4 to 8 ports inexpensive > JBOD, not expensive HW RAID, and can handle hot-swap while running OS. > Would this be correct?
That would be correct, except I don't know any cheap, 4- to 8-port PCIe SATA cards. I'm still finding that the Supermicro PCI-X 8-port cards are the cheapest option. But they require PCI-X slot for optimal performance, which generally means a pricey mobo. R. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
