Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 21:49:45 -0700 From: Gregory Sutter <gsutter@zer0.org> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>, a clever sheep <freebsd-chat@aard.org>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2u freebsd box and riser card drivers Message-ID: <20020711044945.GC973@klapaucius.zer0.org> In-Reply-To: <20020710164242.A23510@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <200207102145.RAA18392@agamemnon.cnchost.com> <3D2CC561.44CE994B@mindspring.com> <20020710164242.A23510@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On 2002-07-10 16:42 -0700, Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 04:38:09PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > > Bakul Shah wrote: > > > > On a related note, I've been looking for a 1U case and riser that can > > > > handle 2 cards (one right-side-up, the other up-side-down), i.e. the > > > > cards go on opposite sides of the riser, with their connectors facing > > > > each other: > > > > > > Check out > > > http://www.adexelec.com/pci32.htm#PCITX4-1 > > > You can specify which side the connector is mounted on. > > > You'd probably want to either use a low power dissipating > > > card in the "component side down" position or use a higher > > > height riser. > > > > Pretty cool. Now I need a case with the proper metal work to > > match it so that I can screw in cards from both sides of the riser... > > too bad it's only 32 bit, though. 8-(. > > http://www.adexelec.com/pci64.htm#PCITX8-1 There are some cool risers on that site. Thanks for the references. I could have used some of these a year ago when I stupidly specified Intel EEAL motherboards in 1U cases for three systems and had to eat the cost of three cabled PCI risers to move the PCI slot over where it belonged. Also stupid are Intel for purposely making sure none of their "desktop series" boards will fit in 1U cases for one reason or another. The EPFV has that super-tall sound riser, EEAL the misplaced PCI slot... now I use Tyan (or eRacks) and everything just works. Well, except Intel heat sinks. :) Greg -- Gregory S. Sutter Only two things are infinite, the mailto:gsutter@zer0.org universe and human stupidity, and I'm http://www.zer0.org/~gsutter/ not sure about the former. hkp://wwwkeys.pgp.net/0x845DFEDD - Albert Einstein [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQE9LQ5pIBUx1YRd/t0RAqUIAJ9/gIZEa8rPc5ONcTvNf/t+hEPkogCeKP1r IpeEyHYjkBF7NfDZbZNRNXE= =N/SE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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