From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 19 08:52:47 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 95BDE1065670 for ; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:52:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de) Received: from mrelay1.uni-hannover.de (mrelay1.uni-hannover.de [130.75.2.106]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E7088FC26 for ; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:52:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from www.pmp.uni-hannover.de (www.pmp.uni-hannover.de [130.75.117.2]) by mrelay1.uni-hannover.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id nAJ8qe5n028928; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:52:41 +0100 Received: from pmp.uni-hannover.de (arc.pmp.uni-hannover.de [130.75.117.1]) by www.pmp.uni-hannover.de (Postfix) with SMTP id 42AD824; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:52:40 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:52:40 +0100 From: Gerrit =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=FChn?= To: Barry Pederson Message-Id: <20091119095240.4ece2490.gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de> In-Reply-To: <4B0447EF.1080703@barryp.org> References: <20091118101706.780938ba.gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de> <20091118180939.2691c2cd.gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de> <4B0430BF.4010201@barryp.org> <20091118180027.GA16477@icarus.home.lan> <20091118181008.GA16741@icarus.home.lan> <4B0447EF.1080703@barryp.org> Organization: Albert-Einstein-Institut (MPI =?ISO-8859-1?Q?f=FCr?= Gravitationsphysik & IGP =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Universit=E4t?= Hannover) X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.7.1 (GTK+ 2.12.11; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-Version: 5.5.5.374460, Antispam-Engine: 2.7.1.369594, Antispam-Data: 2009.11.19.84224 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Jeremy Chadwick 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: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:52:47 -0000 On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:15:59 -0600 Barry Pederson wrote about Re: Support for SAS/SATA non-RAID adapters: BP> What I was questioning was where the OP said: "it fits into a standard BP> PCIe slot and works nicely there as far as I can tell" - which to me BP> sounds like you could use this HBA in a *NON-Supermicro* motherboard. BP> I was just wondering if that was truly the case, given how in the BP> photos it looks to be arranged physically backwards from a regular BP> PCIe card, and given how you mention "The UIO slot itself is BP> proprietary". I'm sorry if my comment "fits into a standard PCIe slot" was misleading here. I wanted to state that -although Supermirco lists this one as a card for UIO- I plugged it into a standard PCIe slot and it simply works there for me. Just the mounting bracket it came with did not fit, but for a low profile card it is not that difficult to live without it. BP> But some more digging on Google has turned up a few mentions along the BP> lines of: BP> BP> """ BP> This card plugs into a normal PCIe 8x slot but the BP> metal mounting bracket bolted to the card is made BP> for a UIO slot (which is why it's so cheap). BP> BP> All you have to do is remove the metal bracket and BP> zip-tie the card to your case for mechanical support. BP> Electrically it'll work fine in a PCIe x8 or x16 slot. BP> """ That's exactly my experience. BP> If someone wanted to make PCIe compatible brackets for this affordable BP> card, they'd probably sell a fair number to small shops or home users. Yeah, I would also buy some. :-) cu Gerrit