On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 21:51, Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is not a UIO card. It's a standard PCI-E card. What the description > is telling you is that you can combine it with a UIO card to add raid > functionality as there is none built-in. Not so. The description [1] mentions that this is UIO, and says only that it negotiates pci-e link speeds, not that it fits in a pci express slot. UIO is pci express, but the slots are positioned differently from pci-e ones.
Compare this to the picture of an equivalent LSI card [2]. The pictures are similar, but compare the position of the bracket. The components are mounted on the wrong sides. Take a look at a UIO board [3]: the PCI-X slot is shared with the blue UIO slot on the left side, like PCI and ISA slots used to be shared. This is why the components are backwards. Will [1]: http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/AOC-USASLP-L8i.cfm [2]: http://www.lsi.com/storage_home/products_home/internal_raid/megaraid_sas/megaraid_sas_8208elp/index.html [3]: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon1333/5400/X7DWE.cfm _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
