In the last episode (Jul 30), Bill Moran said:
> I'm inheriting some hardware.
>
> These boards have 64-bit PCI SATA cards jammed in 32-bit PCI slots. Oddly
> enough, the boxen boot and start Linux (which will be replaced with
> FreeBSD when I'm done)
>
> I guess my question is hardware-related. I mean, I can't believe this
> worked! Has anyone else seen/done this? Is this as crazy as it seems to
> me?
Nope; you can put 64-bit cards in 32-bit slots as long as the card has the
notch in the right place so it fits over one end of the slot. You can also
put 32-bit cards in 64-bit slots.
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Dan Nelson
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