From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jul 10 21:50:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50E6E37B400 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 21:50:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail1.zer0.org (klapaucius.zer0.org [204.152.186.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F18A43E8A for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 21:49:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gsutter@zer0.org) Received: by mail1.zer0.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 7CC74239A05; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 21:49:45 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 21:49:45 -0700 From: Gregory Sutter To: Brooks Davis Cc: Terry Lambert , Bakul Shah , a clever sheep , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2u freebsd box and riser card drivers Message-ID: <20020711044945.GC973@klapaucius.zer0.org> References: <200207102145.RAA18392@agamemnon.cnchost.com> <3D2CC561.44CE994B@mindspring.com> <20020710164242.A23510@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="RYJh/3oyKhIjGcML" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020710164242.A23510@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Organization: Zer0 X-Purpose: For great justice! Mail-Copies-To: poster X-Message-Flag: Ditch this virus-ridden Outlook crap and get a real mailer! Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --RYJh/3oyKhIjGcML Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2002-07-10 16:42 -0700, Brooks Davis 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 c= an > > > > 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 faci= ng > > > > each other: > > >=20 > > > 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. > >=20 > > 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-(. >=20 > 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 --=20 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 --RYJh/3oyKhIjGcML Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQE9LQ5pIBUx1YRd/t0RAqUIAJ9/gIZEa8rPc5ONcTvNf/t+hEPkogCeKP1r IpeEyHYjkBF7NfDZbZNRNXE= =N/SE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --RYJh/3oyKhIjGcML-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message