[OpenIndiana-discuss] SYBA SY-PEX40008

[Michael Stapleton]

Found this in the review section:

Cons: New cards seems to have a Winbond W39F010 BIOS chipset which is
not supported by Silicon Image or Syba -- which means you can *NOT*
upgrade this card. The card will more than likely come with a BIOS from
2006, the latest is from 2010 and even then if you want to remove the
"RAID" functionality (I use these in a ZFS system so pseudo-hardware
raid is useless to me and slows down boot time) you cannot.


Personally I would steer clear of it.


Mike


On Tue, 2013-02-12 at 08:37 -0500, Bentley, Dain wrote:

> Hello all,
> Has anyone had luck with the SYBA SY-PEX40008?
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816124027
> 
> I read a blog post on backblaze on their storage pods and this was the sata card they used.   I've read the reviews on newegg and it seems to work well with ZFS/FreeBSD and was wondering if anyone had used it with OI?
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