Those cards all have (and appear to require) PCI-64 (double-connector) bus plug-ins. For those of us with single PCI bus slots (e.g. those of us who don't have Opterons), that simply won't work unless I'm missing something.
-- -- Karl Denninger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Internet Consultant & Kids Rights Activist http://www.denninger.net My home on the net - links to everything I do! http://scubaforum.org Your UNCENSORED place to talk about DIVING! http://homecuda.com Emerald Coast: Buy / sell homes, cars, boats! http://genesis3.blogspot.com Musings Of A Sentient Mind On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 12:06:16PM +0100, Robert Watson wrote: > On Sun, 24 Jul 2005, Mike Tancsa wrote: > > >At 12:00 AM 24/07/2005, Karl Denninger wrote: > > > >>Finally, any pointers on a 2 port PCI SATA board that (1) is KNOWN to > >>work, (2) has EXTERNAL SATA connections, and (3) isn't one of those > >>whiz-bang all-in-one-RAID thingies that costs $500? > > > >3ware makes an excellent 2 port SATA card (8000 series) that works very > >well. Its about $110 USD from various online sources. You can use it as > >RAID1 or 2 independent disks. They work very well and are well tested > >in FreeBSD. > > One of the things that makes 3ware a particularly encouraging choice is > that 3ware helps maintain their driver on FreeBSD, as well as putting it > through their own test environment with their hardware. 3ware's driver > developer also has a FreeBSD commit bit so that he can maintain it > directly. The fact that vendors like 3ware and others (Intel, etc) get > directly involved in testing and maintaining their drivers on FreeBSD is > one of the things that gets them on my recommendation list for hardware > purchases. > > Robert N M Watson > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > > %SPAMBLOCK-SYS: Matched [EMAIL PROTECTED], message ok _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
