I'm stupid

[Simon]

I would check the manual (don't just try it, you might burn it) to see if the card is
backward compatible, a lot are.

-Simon


On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:27:50 -0400, Troy Settle 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...  not going to work in /any/ of the recycled servers I'm 
>wanting to build.  I mean, come on... if I was going to invest in a 
>high-end server board with 64bit PCI slots, I wouldn't waste my time 
>with SATA, it'd be U320 all the way.
>
>Of course, I could have just used an old AMI Megaraid 266 controller 
>w/U2W drives, but not ONE of my P4 boards will even boot with the thing...
>
>Anyone have any reccomendations on a reliable, 32-bit PCI, 4-port SATA 
>raid(5) controller for FreeBSD 5.x?
>
>
>Thanks,
>
>--
>   Troy Settle
>   Pulaski Networks
>   866.477.5638
>   http://www.psknet.com
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