Miata Based File Server...

[Bernd Walter]

On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 10:58:58PM +0100, Conall O'Brien wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 
> I'm currently building a fileserver based on a 433MHz Miata Personal
> Workstation. I currently have it running 4.11-RELEASE before I upgrade
> to RELENG_5 from CVS in the coming days.
> 
> 
> I have an LSI MegaRAID 150-6 SATA RAID card combined with 4 x 250GB
> Hitachi SATA disks I wish to setup as a RAID5 array. The controller 
> is appearing with the amr driver as amr0 during boot up, as expected.
> 
> 
> My problem is as follows. How can I access the MegaRAID card to create
> my RAID5 array since the PWS doesn't give me access to the MegaRAID BIOS
> via the Ctrl+M hotkey during th eboot up phase?
> 
> 
> Unfortunately, the PWS is the only system I have with a 64 bit PCI slot,
> which the MegaRAID card requires.

64bit PCI cards and slots are backward compatible.
You can put a 64bit card into a 32 bit slot as well, you just need a
slot where the 64bit extension don't physicaly collide.

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