From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 19 17:47:58 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A0EE16A41F for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 17:47:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cbuechler@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04A1243D46 for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 17:47:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cbuechler@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i13so1272358wra for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 10:47:54 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=IAf7mUyIryyOpLn15nFBu+lWffaNs6CQ7Qw+2owZwQ7pGljpr0yUrka59+T8YS8B4iYZVkRbdPmuGjI4RONZyX9oD6GVc7lrv7TiJavqdsDt6hce+5JpoKzh2fCJsIUvLpdouOi/vmQskZ3JBFuKvNHtEWxTjwo5/vYqAYsQHbE= Received: by 10.54.157.14 with SMTP id f14mr826518wre; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 10:47:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.80.17 with HTTP; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 10:47:13 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 13:47:13 -0400 From: Chris Buechler To: Troy Settle In-Reply-To: <42DD2A06.8090106@psknet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <42DD2A06.8090106@psknet.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I'm stupid X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Chris Buechler List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 17:47:58 -0000 On 7/19/05, Troy Settle 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