I'm stupid

[Chris Buechler]

On 7/19/05, Troy Settle <troy at psknet.com> wrote:
> 
> Ok, I'm stupid...
> 
> I pulled some old servers out of service, one of which is a 2.8Ghz P4
> w/HTT that I was going to turn into a web server.  So, I called up one
> of my favorite vendors and asked them for a 4 disk SATA RAID solution.
> They came up with a really slick sounding setup:
> 
>    3Ware 9000-something (listed as supported under 5.x)
>    4x 80GB/8MB SATA Drives
>    Rhino (or something) hot-swap SATA cage...
> 
> It all arrived today, and to my suprise, the 3ware card is a @#$@# 64bit
> PCI card...  


I run a 64 bit PCI 3ware 8 port IDE RAID card in a 32 bit PCI slot on
an old dual P3 500 SuperMicro motherboard.  Works fine.  As the last
poster suggested, this will probably work fine in a 32 bit slot.

Granted you're probably not going to get the full throughput in a 32
bit slot especially if there's anything else on the PCI bus.  But if
you cared that much about I/O, you'd likely go SCSI anyway.

-Chris