12 SATA ports via PCI-X slots

[Stephane LAPIE]

On 11/10/2010 04:32 AM, dieterbsd at engineer.com wrote:
>>> And I just noticed on the Newegg.com photos of the AOC-SAT2-MV8 that
>>> for disk activity there doesn't seem to be a ground pin for each 
> disk,
>>> just one common ground pin. Which, for me at least, sucks because all
>>> of the disk activity LEDs in my chassis have their own ground wire 
> and
>>> are terminated in duplex headers, not the split headers.
>>
>> - The optional BIOS ROMs don't play nice with other extension cards 
> you
>> might have on a busy system. You might want to disable them and leave
>> the disk initialization to FreeBSD.
> 
> How does one disable the BIOS ROMs on expansion cards?  Is this
> specific to the AOC-SAT2-MV8, or can you do this on the mainboard?
> Sounds like the sort of thing they would hide in the mainboard BIOS
> somewhere.  I have a couple of JMB363 cards that I think would work
> better without the BIOS ROMs.  Unfortunately I have never run across
> any sort of "turn off expansion card BIOS ROM" option.


Yes, you should be able to disable this from the mainboard by saying you
don't want to use the Option ROM on Slot #X.
-- 
Stephane LAPIE, EPITA SRS, Promo 2005
"Even when they have digital readouts, I can't understand them."
--MegaTokyo

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