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What I don't understand is how you concluded that the Netgear SW is the problem. Did you use another SW (that you may have forgotten to mention in your post?)
Do you have redundant connection for the VM box (meaning the box has 2 connections to the same SW, or same VLAN)?
One thing I would...
I don't understand this. Why are you purchasing thermal compound?
Unless you are into overclocking, this is a waste of money. I have a Core i7-based Xeon and I'm only using the compound already put on the heatsink.
You don't need thermal compound. Save the $7.
I'm using the Asus P6T6 WS Revolution motherboard for my NAS running FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE. That motherboard includes 2 x Realtek 8111C NIC's. Zero issues with them and work perfectly when connected to a gigabit switch.
Realtek's USED to be notorious a while back, but since then they have...
I have 5x Hitachi 1TB 32MB 7200RPM drives, along with 6x WD Green 1TB drives in a ZFS RAIDZ2 configuration on FreeBSD. So far, I'm running good.
The Deathstar drives were sold under IBM, until Hitachi bought out that division (if I'm not mistaken). Not sure what changes they have made (if any)
For those who care, I received a response from Areca regarding my issue:
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Dear Sir,
i am sorry, the 1300 SAS HBA do not support freebsd and solaris.
it works with Windows, linux and mac os only.
Best Regards,
....
Areca Technology Tech-support Division
"
Here is the...
Been lurking on this topic for sometime now and decided to give some of my insight.
I have purchased the Areca 1300-4i controller for my NAS box in hopes to run it on OpenSolaris and using ZFS. Unfortunately I am having difficulty getting the card to work.
OpenSolaris does not come with...