Real HW S-ATA Raid card support in Solaris 10 x86?

I am trying to find an SATA RAID controller (real HW raid, not the
pseudo raid that comes on many mb) that works with Solaris 10 on x86.
I thought maybe the LSI MegaRAID SATA 150-4 might. Solaris has an amr
driver ported from FreeBSD according to the Solaris amr man page as
well as some webpage at Sun. This card is supported with the amr
driver on FreeBSD. However, the card is not correctly identified by
Solaris 10 at install time. There is also an LSI driver for download
for the MPT Fusion stuff and this card supposedly adheres to that
architecture family but it also does not work (I did it as an ITU
install addition).
I am also wondering about the LSI MegaRAID SATA 300x-8 card. There is
something in the LSI supplied itmpt driver that shows an 8-port
SAS/SATA controller support but I am not sure if this one is it as I do
not have the card.
I am also wondering about the Adaptec 2410SA or 2810SA cards. On
FreeBSD they are supported by the aac driver and Solaris has an aac
driver that is ported from FreeBSD. Anyone have any experiences with
these?
The Areca 11x0 series has a Solaris (not yet bootable) driver from the
factory (they emailed me a copy). I would prefer a bootable driver
since my server only has the disks for the RAID (mirror plus hot swap).
Any others that I need to look at ?
Alternatively, how to coerce the system (by changing stuff :-) to recognize under the existing mpt / amr the LSI MegaRAID SATA 150-4 at boot time from CD during an install. It shares the PCI id of 1000 (PCI1000) but the subid (after PCI1000,) is different than the SCSI brethren that are supported
Thanks
Chad

I'm trying to find a RAID SATA controller to use with Solaris 10 too....did you have any luck?

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