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From: Francois Tigeot <ftigeot@wolfpond.org>
To: Olaf Greve <o.greve@axis.nl>
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Subject: Re: Hardware RAID support? Which controller best to use?
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On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 03:42:29PM +0100, Olaf Greve wrote:

[...]

> Judging from the pictures of the 9500S it has a 
> 64-bits PCI slot, but it looks like it might be compatible with the 
> 32-bits slots as well (at a performance penalty, of course).
> Would you happen to know if that's indeed possible, or whether they'd 
> better choose a different RAID controller?

It is possible, and it works nicely. I built such a box no later than
two weeks ago with an Asus A8V/Athlon 64 combo.

So far, so good.

-- 
Francois Tigeot