From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jul 10 13:43:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5389E37B400 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 13:43:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net (swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.123]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E06E443E52 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 13:43:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0451.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.199.196] helo=mindspring.com) by swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17SOIl-0001hc-00; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 13:43:08 -0700 Message-ID: <3D2C9C2F.91398132@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 13:42:23 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: a clever sheep Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2u freebsd box and riser card drivers References: <20020710155003.GC500@malkavian.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org a clever sheep wrote: > i'm looking to move one (or more) of my freebsd boxes to 2u rack-mount > cases. in some cases i have on-board lan, in others i need both a lan > card and a video card. > > a lot of these cheap-o 2u cases look like they require drivers for the > pci riser cards. is this the case? is it universal or is it dependant > on the brand of riser card? They are just wires and connectors to extend the wires and connectors already there. No drivers necessary. On a related note, I've been looking for a 1U case and riser that can handle 2 cards (one right-side-up, the other up-side-down), i.e. the cards go on opposite sides of the riser, with their connectors facing each other: riser card 1 ---. ,--- card 2 --------------- |-+-| --------------- ---' | `--- | | | | | | motherboard ----------------+---+------------------------------ Anyone seen something like this? Preferrably, both 32 and 64 bit versions... -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message