Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 13:47:13 -0400 From: Chris Buechler <cbuechler@gmail.com> To: Troy Settle <troy@psknet.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I'm stupid Message-ID: <d64aa176050719104735e423d7@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <42DD2A06.8090106@psknet.com> References: <42DD2A06.8090106@psknet.com>
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On 7/19/05, Troy Settle <troy@psknet.com> wrote: >=20 > Ok, I'm stupid... >=20 > I pulled some old servers out of service, one of which is a 2.8Ghz P4 > w/HTT that I was going to turn into a web server. So, I called up one > of my favorite vendors and asked them for a 4 disk SATA RAID solution. > They came up with a really slick sounding setup: >=20 > 3Ware 9000-something (listed as supported under 5.x) > 4x 80GB/8MB SATA Drives > Rhino (or something) hot-swap SATA cage... >=20 > It all arrived today, and to my suprise, the 3ware card is a @#$@# 64bit > PCI card... =20 I run a 64 bit PCI 3ware 8 port IDE RAID card in a 32 bit PCI slot on an old dual P3 500 SuperMicro motherboard. Works fine. As the last poster suggested, this will probably work fine in a 32 bit slot. Granted you're probably not going to get the full throughput in a 32 bit slot especially if there's anything else on the PCI bus. But if you cared that much about I/O, you'd likely go SCSI anyway. -Chris
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