3ware Escalade 7506-4LP in PCI-X 66MHz slot?

[Patrick Hurrelmann]

On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 13:46:23 +0200 (MEST)
"freebsd_daemon" <free.bsd at gmx.net> wrote:

> dear list,
> 
> I am planing to build a small DB-server and want to use a hot-swap capable
> Raid 5 array of IDE disks for the data. I am going to use FreeBSD 4.10R.
> 
> I would like to use a 3ware Escalade 7506-4LP controller which is suppost to
> require a "PCI 2.2 compliant 64-bit/66MHz bus" slot.
> 
> The mainboard I am considering (Tomcat E7210 S5112G2NR) has a PCI-X 66MHz
> slot.
> 
> Will the 3ware controller work in that slot?

yes, it will as pci-x slots are backwards compatible.

but please correct me, if i should be wrong ;)

Patrick


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