On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 11:55 PM, Jeremy Chadwick <free...@jdc.parodius.com> wrote: > > And before someone asks: in most cases you *cannot* use this card in a > PCIe x16 connector on a motherboard. Most generic motherboard > manufacturers at this point have special one-offs that assume their PCIe > x16 slots are for video cards only. If you aren't sure, you'll need to > ask your motherboard manufacturer/vendor if you can use a > non-VGA-adapter in their PCIe x16 slot. Some Supermicro boards do have > PCIe x16 slots that can be used by non-VGA adapters, but I haven't seen > this on, say, Asus/Gigabyte/Dell/Intel motherboards. >
Jeremy may not have seen PCI express x16 HBAs working on consumer boards, but I have, plenty of times. I don't know why the FUD, but I have had no problems with an Intel SASUC8I (LSI 1068 based) running on an Asus P5Q Pro, a simple consumer P45 chipset. I'm not unique, many people have success doing this. Cheers Tom _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
