zfs discuss - Nov 2008 - Fully supported 12-port SATA cards?

I am helping a friend who is build a storage server for his company  
and I have advocated for Solaris and ZFS.

But now we are having trouble to find  any good SATA controller for  
12+ disks, there are Areca cards, but they seems very flaky (24 port  
support, but hangs with more than 12 in JBOD mode, hangs on disk  
failures etc).

The AOC-SAT2-MV8,AOC-USAS-L8i  have been mentioned, but it had  
problems with device numbering and/or as I understood it no support  
for hot plugging.

Isn''t  there any supported PCI.* SATA card with at least 12 ports that
do work and have a real driver supporting hot plugging/cfgadm- 
operations?

The HCL does not tell you everything, and scanning the lists did not  
show any consensus regarding this. This seems to have been a problem  
for years, I tried to find a card for myself a while back.

Henrik Johansson
http://sparcv9.blogspot.com

Personally I''d buy Sun hardware, an x4240, or an x2200 with a J4200. 
Other hardware does work, but as you''ve seen, there appear to be a lot
of limitations at the moment.
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