On 22 July 2020 10:53:57 CEST, "Gerrit Kühn" <gerrit.ku...@aei.mpg.de> wrote: >Am Wed, 22 Jul 2020 10:43:39 +0200 >schrieb Gerrit Kühn <gerrit.ku...@aei.mpg.de>: > >> > Are there any SAS drive controller cards that go in a PCI slot (Not >PCI >> > express). I suspect it's a silly question but I'd like to find >one. > >> I don't know any. > >Looking around, I just found two (old) PCI-X based models. If I >remember >correctly, PCI-X cards should work in PCI slots (given there is enough >physical place to fit them). >ICP Vortex 9085LI, PCI-X (2216800-R) >LSI Logic SAS 3442X-R, SAS, PCI-X (LSI00164) > >Don't know if you can still buy these anywhere (2nd hand maybe?). Be >warned that the LSI one has a Broadcom SAS1068E chipset which afaicr is >known to be limited to 2TB drives. > > >cu > Gerrit
Not all PCI-X cards work in normal PCI slots. I had 1 of those and it would only work in the PCI-X slot I had at the time. Considering how rare those cards and supporting mainboards were even back then, I wouldn't trust compatibility promises too much. -- Joost -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
