Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:52:40 +0100 From: Gerrit =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=FChn?= <gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de> To: Barry Pederson <bp@barryp.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com> Subject: Re: Support for SAS/SATA non-RAID adapters Message-ID: <20091119095240.4ece2490.gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de> In-Reply-To: <4B0447EF.1080703@barryp.org> References: <b269bc570911171629l394171dau4acac00383b5e2bc@mail.gmail.com> <20091118101706.780938ba.gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de> <b269bc570911180856nabf15b7k128e7b7a41b01d79@mail.gmail.com> <20091118180939.2691c2cd.gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de> <4B0430BF.4010201@barryp.org> <20091118180027.GA16477@icarus.home.lan> <20091118181008.GA16741@icarus.home.lan> <4B0447EF.1080703@barryp.org>
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On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:15:59 -0600 Barry Pederson <bp@barryp.org> wrote about Re: Support for SAS/SATA non-RAID adapters: BP> What I was questioning was where the OP said: "it fits into a standard BP> PCIe slot and works nicely there as far as I can tell" - which to me BP> sounds like you could use this HBA in a *NON-Supermicro* motherboard. BP> I was just wondering if that was truly the case, given how in the BP> photos it looks to be arranged physically backwards from a regular BP> PCIe card, and given how you mention "The UIO slot itself is BP> proprietary". I'm sorry if my comment "fits into a standard PCIe slot" was misleading here. I wanted to state that -although Supermirco lists this one as a card for UIO- I plugged it into a standard PCIe slot and it simply works there for me. Just the mounting bracket it came with did not fit, but for a low profile card it is not that difficult to live without it. BP> But some more digging on Google has turned up a few mentions along the BP> lines of: BP> BP> """ BP> This card plugs into a normal PCIe 8x slot but the BP> metal mounting bracket bolted to the card is made BP> for a UIO slot (which is why it's so cheap). BP> BP> All you have to do is remove the metal bracket and BP> zip-tie the card to your case for mechanical support. BP> Electrically it'll work fine in a PCIe x8 or x16 slot. BP> """ That's exactly my experience. BP> If someone wanted to make PCIe compatible brackets for this affordable BP> card, they'd probably sell a fair number to small shops or home users. Yeah, I would also buy some. :-) cu Gerrit
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