Support for SAS/SATA non-RAID adapters

[Gerrit Kühn]

On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:35:56 -0800 Freddie Cash <fjwcash at gmail.com> wrote
about Re: Support for SAS/SATA non-RAID adapters:

FC> > Hm, I don't know the recent exchange rate, but are you sure this is
FC> > the same card? I paid something like 80,-€ (excl. VAT).

FC> Oops, you're right, was reading the model numbers wrong.  The
FC> LSI1068-based one is only $129 CDN, the Intel IOP-based ones are
FC> $200-300 CDN.

That makes sense then.

FC> Last time I checked the Euro was in the $1.50-2.00 CDN range.

Seems to be something like 1.55 these days.

FC> > I guess the version of the card I have here was actually intended to
FC> > be used in some kind of special Supermirco-Extension Slot. However,
FC> > it fits into a standard PCIe slot and works nicely there as far as I
FC> > can tell. Do you have the opportunity of using a riser card that
FC> > would give you one more slot?

FC> Urgh, I have yet to find a riser card that will plug into a Tyan
FC> motherboard and not cause issues.  Due to all the issues we've had
FC> with riser cards in the past, we have sworn off all riser cards.  For
FC> our 2U servers, we use low-profile cards to avoid risers.

I had some trouble with risers in the past, too. However, I have a Tyan
Transport here that seems to work nicely at least with the riser that came
with the system.

FC> I'll keep looking for a PCI-X card.  These look like they'll cover our
FC> PCIe needs.

Please let us know if you find one that is suitable. I spent quite some
time to dig out the Supermicro card; cheap (without raid) and
FreeBSD-supported cards with more than 4 channels are not that common.


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