From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 18 18:00:30 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D8881065693 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:00:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from QMTA12.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta12.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.27.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 324958FC1F for ; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:00:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from OMTA24.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.92]) by QMTA12.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 6hci1d0081zF43QACi0W7A; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:00:30 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([98.248.46.159]) by OMTA24.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 6i771d00H3S48mS8ki77Ns; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:07:09 +0000 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E14531E3035; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:00:27 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:00:27 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20091118180027.GA16477@icarus.home.lan> References: <20091118101706.780938ba.gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de> <20091118180939.2691c2cd.gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de> <4B0430BF.4010201@barryp.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <4B0430BF.4010201@barryp.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Subject: Re: Support for SAS/SATA non-RAID adapters X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:00:30 -0000 On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 11:37:03AM -0600, Barry Pederson wrote: > Gerrit Kühn wrote: > >On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:56:14 -0800 Freddie Cash wrote > >about Re: Support for SAS/SATA non-RAID adapters: > > > >FC> > I installed a Supermicro AOC-USASLP-L8i card here some days ago. > >FC> > Should be even cheaper than the ones you mentioned and comes with a > >FC> > LSI chip supported by mpt driver: > > > > > >I guess the version of the card I have here was actually intended to be > >used in some kind of special Supermirco-Extension Slot. However, it fits > >into a standard PCIe slot and works nicely there as far as I can tell. > >Do you have the opportunity of using a riser card that would give you one > >more slot? > > Those Supermicro UIO cards look like backwards PCIe cards. Do they > come with other brackets for fitting into a PCIe slot, or did you > have to go bracketless? > > The online manual at > > http://www.supermicro.com/manuals/other/AOC-USASLP-L8i.pdf > > didn't mention anything about brackets or how it'd work in PCIe slots. Supermicro UIO slots will adapt to whatever adapter you stick in them which are labelled compatible with said motherboard. The UIO slot itself is proprietary, but provides pinout interfaces to support both PCIe 1x, 4x, and 8x, as well as PCI (32-bit and 64-bit), and PCI-X (presumably 100 and 133MHz). But ultimately it depends on what board offers what pinouts through the UIO slot. Rather than "document it", here's how it works in the Real World(tm): - We need a PCIe x8 on our X7SBi for a low-profile RAID card - X7SBi motherboard has a UIO slot: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon3000/3210/X7SBA.cfm - UIO slot on this board supports one of the following, depending on which riser you buy: - (1) PCIe x8 - (1) PCI-X 133MHz (64-bit). - Scroll down to the bottom of the page and you'll find: - CSE-RR1U-ELi -- 1U PCI-E x8 Riser Card for X7SBi - Visit Supermicro's Accessories page, and select Riser Cards: http://www.supermicro.com/support/resources/Riser/riser.aspx - Search for CSE-RR1U-ELi, and you find: http://www.supermicro.com/a_images/products/Accessories/CSE-RR1U-ELi.jpg - Contact Supermicro distributor (whoever you got the server from, or you can contact Supermicro directly to help find a distributor for you) and get the CSE-RR1U-ELi. Some online retailers do sell these risers too. - Costs about US$11. - Buy it, install it, mount the card in it, enjoy. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |