Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:37:03 -0600 From: Barry Pederson <bp@barryp.org> To: =?UTF-8?B?R2Vycml0IEvDvGhu?= <gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de> Cc: FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Support for SAS/SATA non-RAID adapters Message-ID: <4B0430BF.4010201@barryp.org> In-Reply-To: <20091118180939.2691c2cd.gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de> References: <b269bc570911171629l394171dau4acac00383b5e2bc@mail.gmail.com> <20091118101706.780938ba.gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de> <b269bc570911180856nabf15b7k128e7b7a41b01d79@mail.gmail.com> <20091118180939.2691c2cd.gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de>
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Gerrit Kühn wrote: > On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:56:14 -0800 Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com> wrote > about Re: Support for SAS/SATA non-RAID adapters: > > FC> > I installed a Supermicro AOC-USASLP-L8i card here some days ago. > FC> > Should be even cheaper than the ones you mentioned and comes with a > FC> > LSI chip supported by mpt driver: > > > I guess the version of the card I have here was actually intended to be > used in some kind of special Supermirco-Extension Slot. However, it fits > into a standard PCIe slot and works nicely there as far as I can tell. > Do you have the opportunity of using a riser card that would give you one > more slot? Those Supermicro UIO cards look like backwards PCIe cards. Do they come with other brackets for fitting into a PCIe slot, or did you have to go bracketless? The online manual at http://www.supermicro.com/manuals/other/AOC-USASLP-L8i.pdf didn't mention anything about brackets or how it'd work in PCIe slots. Barry
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