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Date:      Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:37:07 +0100
From:      Gerrit =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=FChn?= <gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de>
To:        Barry Pederson <bp@barryp.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Support for SAS/SATA non-RAID adapters
Message-ID:  <20091119093707.34999054.gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de>
In-Reply-To: <4B0430BF.4010201@barryp.org>
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On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:37:03 -0600 Barry Pederson <bp@barryp.org> wrote
about Re: Support for SAS/SATA non-RAID adapters:

> > 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?

BP> Those Supermicro UIO cards look like backwards PCIe cards.  Do they
BP> come with other brackets for fitting into a PCIe slot, or did you have
BP> to go bracketless?

They only come with a bracket that does not exactly fit into a standard
slot. Maybe the other bracket is available, but I did not care much about
it and simply went for bracketless (not much of a problem with a low
profile card).

BP> didn't mention anything about brackets or how it'd work in PCIe slots.

For me it simply works. Only the bracket does not fit.


cu
  Gerrit


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