From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 13 14:18:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gershwin.tera.com (gershwin.tera.com [207.224.230.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6974637B72C for ; Tue, 13 Jun 2000 14:17:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tera.com) Received: from tera.com (athena.sea.tera.com [207.224.230.169]) by gershwin.tera.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA23374; Tue, 13 Jun 2000 14:17:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: by tera.com (8.8.8+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id OAA02951; Tue, 13 Jun 2000 14:17:50 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 14:17:50 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Shawn Ramsey Cc: Gary Kline , David Kelly , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: low-cost SCSI cards?? Message-ID: <20000613141750.A2946@athena.sea.tera.com> References: <200006130056.TAA91435@nospam.hiwaay.net> <200006130333.UAA02171@tera.com> <20000613130031.C91833@luke.cpl.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95us In-Reply-To: <20000613130031.C91833@luke.cpl.net>; from Shawn Ramsey on Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 01:00:31PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 01:00:31PM -0700, Shawn Ramsey wrote: > > I've got an additional question for the list, and excuse me > > if this is an idiot question--I don't keep up to date with > > the PCI standard. I've asked this on the SuSE list and > > zero replies. > > > > I've got an Adaptec 29160 adaptor; I expected it to fit > > right into the motherboad of this server (an older 200MHz. > > 128MB board. No::: there were additional non-PCI like > > connectors on the end of the 29160 card. > > > > Last week I bought a new PeeCee thinking that it would > > certainly have a slot to fit this 29160, but nope. The > > card does fit, but the end connectors are not plugged in > > to anything. > > Thats right. The 29160 is a 64-bit PCI card. You can still plug it into a regular 32-bit PCI slot, but part of it will not be connected to anything. > Seems that PC hardware has gotten so ``cheap'' that this high-end adaptor which will do anything//everything SCSI now costs less than my early Adaptec boards does. Which is certainly a bonus since I was seeing $180 flapping away in the sky. At least when I'm ready to go DSL, I'll have the hardware... gary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message