Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 20:41:04 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: kline@tera.com (Gary Kline) Cc: dkelly@hiwaay.net (David Kelly), freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: low-cost SCSI cards?? Message-ID: <200006130341.UAA01399@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 12 Jun 0100 20:33:45 PDT." <200006130333.UAA02171@tera.com>
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> I've got an additional question for the list, and excuse me > if this is an idiot question--I don't keep up to date with > the PCI standard. I've asked this on the SuSE list and > zero replies. > > I've got an Adaptec 29160 adaptor; I expected it to fit > right into the motherboad of this server (an older 200MHz. > 128MB board. No::: there were additional non-PCI like > connectors on the end of the 29160 card. > > Last week I bought a new PeeCee thinking that it would > certainly have a slot to fit this 29160, but nope. The > card does fit, but the end connectors are not plugged in > to anything. > > So the question is:: Is there a *new* PCI that takes > these newer cards?? Any feedback, URL's whatever will > be very welcome! The 29160 is a 64bit PCI card. 64bit PCI cards have an extra connector on them for the additional 32bits. You can still plug them into a 32bit slot, however, and in that case the extra connector just hangs out - not plugging into anything. The card will work fine in this configuration, but of course won't be able to get the full performance of Ultra-160 (which exceeds the 132MB/sec speed of the standard 32bit/33MHz PCI bus). -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Manufacturer of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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