From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 4 15:11:02 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F66016A4CE for ; Sun, 4 Jan 2004 15:11:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5982843D31 for ; Sun, 4 Jan 2004 15:11:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (IDENT:brdavis@localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.12.10/8.12.3) with ESMTP id i04NAwA7005367; Sun, 4 Jan 2004 15:10:58 -0800 Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.12.10/8.12.3/Submit) id i04NAwmG005366; Sun, 4 Jan 2004 15:10:58 -0800 Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 15:10:57 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: Rogier Krieger Message-ID: <20040104231057.GA5091@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <3.0.5.32.20040104200916.011e4c00@virgiel.xs4all.nl> <3.0.5.32.20040104200916.011e4c00@virgiel.xs4all.nl> <3.0.5.32.20040105000444.0123f9c0@virgiel.xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="UugvWAfsgieZRqgk" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20040105000444.0123f9c0@virgiel.xs4all.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) on odin.ac.hmc.edu cc: Mike Tancsa cc: FreeBSD-hardware list Subject: Re: Support for affordable S-ATA RAID controllers (xs4) X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2004 23:11:02 -0000 --UugvWAfsgieZRqgk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 12:04:44AM +0100, Rogier Krieger wrote: > Previous correspondence from Mike Tancsa (14:53 4-1-2004 -0500): > >I picked up a couple of 3WARE 8006-2s the other week from > >www.hypermicro.com for $129 USD each which is not much more than the > >Adaptec or Promise cards.=20 >=20 > Browsing through the 3ware catalogue, I see that the card is > made for 64 bit PCI slots. Do you know whether it works in > a regular 32 bit PCI slot? Otherwise, I would have to buy a > Xeon board, which are rather expensive (IIRC). For US$ 129, > the cards are definitely a bargain (if they work on a 32bit slot) The standard mandates that 64-bit PCI devices work (slower of course) in 32-bit slots. Some motherboards may have mechanical issues, but you should be able to find at least one slot that works on most boards. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --UugvWAfsgieZRqgk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/+J1/XY6L6fI4GtQRAm1kAJ93qGwnb8RXEetbcugj1C3b1py6TgCgoXY7 uXpA4wkmZ0WxiahMci9rv+g= =GjCp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --UugvWAfsgieZRqgk--