Well i went ahead and ordered the board. I will report back soon with the results..i'm pretty excited. These CPU's seem great on paper.
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 9:02 PM, Thomas Burgess <wonsl...@gmail.com> wrote: > the onboard sata is a secondary issue. If i need to, i'll boot from the > oboard usb slots. I have 2 LSI 1068e based sas controllers which i will be > using. > > > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 8:40 PM, James C. McPherson > <j...@opensolaris.org>wrote: > >> On 12/05/10 10:32 AM, Michael DeMan wrote: >> >>> I agree on the motherboard and peripheral chipset issue. >>> >>> This, and the last generation AMD quad/six core motherboards >>> >> > all seem to use the AMD SP56x0/SP5100 chipset, which I can't >> > find much information about support on for either OpenSolaris or >> FreeBSD. >> >> If you can get the device driver detection utility to run >> on it, that will give you a reasonable idea. >> >> >> Another issue is the LSI SAS2008 chipset for SAS controller >>> >> > which is frequently offered as an onboard option for many motherboards >> > as well and still seems to be somewhat of a work in progress in >> > regards to being 'production ready'. >> >> What metric are you using for "production ready" ? >> Are there features missing which you expect to see >> in the driver, or is it just "oh noes, I haven't >> seen enough big customers with it" ? >> >> >> James C. McPherson >> -- >> Senior Software Engineer, Solaris >> Oracle >> http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog >> >> _______________________________________________ >> zfs-discuss mailing list >> zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss >> > >
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