[OpenIndiana-discuss] Another [OT] Hardware Post

[Harry Putnam]

Russ Price <rjp_sun at fubegra.net> writes:

> I'm running an ASUS M4A785-M with an Intel SASUC8I HBA, and it's been
> flawless with OpenSolaris b134, OI 147, and OI 148. I was a bit cheap
> with the RAM, with 4x1GB sticks of ECC RAM, but it has performed well
> for me. I'm using all six onboard SATA ports, all eight ports on the
> HBA, and a SiI 3112-based two-port SATA card in the PCIe X1 slot.

Sorry to be dense here but what is an HBA, I'm pretty sure the google
hits:

  Hawaii Baptist Academy
or
 Healthcare Businesswomen's Association

Are not the right ones :)
 
> Its integrated Radeon HD4200 only works the the VESA driver, but that
> doesn't bother me since the machine is my fileserver.

Do you mean you can't get an X desktop?  Or can you run X with VESA
driver but it sucks or what?