[OpenIndiana-discuss] Suggestions for SATA HBAs

[Christopher Chan]

On Tuesday, December 14, 2010 07:58 AM, Chris Mosetick wrote:
> Recently, (about 2 months age) I had terribly experiences while testing a
> PCI and PCI-X cards that both used sil3124 chipsets.  It seems that the
> driver is in serious need of an update to work with these cards properly.
> You can create pools and file systems, but don't try to move any data larger
> than 1gig over to the pool, as the machine will kernel panic, and go into a
> state of constant reboots until you remove the card and/or the disks
> connected to it.

Oh, I wonder when they broke the driver then. It was okay for me ages 
ago...I last used it on a box with an ON version before 2008.05 though.


>
> -Chris
>
> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 4:57 AM, Christopher Chan<
> christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk>  wrote:
>
>> On Monday, December 13, 2010 01:50 PM, Alex Smith (K4RNT) wrote:
>>
>>> I'm looking for PCI-E x1 SATA HBAs - any suggestions on ones that
>>> would work out of the box with OpenIndiana and related distros? I've
>>> been tracking chipsets as they come out for other things, but not
>>> storage.
>>>
>>> I hope to repurpose my current desktop as a file server and general
>>> purpose server in a home hobbyist setting. Are there any other options
>>> besides x8 PCI-E HBAs out there? I'm not sure what current Silicon
>>> Image controllers work.
>>>
>>>
>> What's wrong with SIL3124 controllers?
>>
>>
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