>>> It's supposed to negotiate down to x1? >> Yes. > Okay. I've dropped the manufacturer an email asking whether this > device is supposed to work in a mechanically x16 slot which has only > one lane available to it.
It's not. Vantec wrote back, saying > I'm sorry, but this card won't work with Any PCIe slot with only 1 lane. > Yes, technically it should be able to run in 1 lane, but we designed it not > to support using 1 lane for 5 devices, it will be slow. I offered my opinion that "slow" is better than "not working at all", but, obviously, that's not relevant to the existing hardware. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML [email protected] / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B
