On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Will Murnane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> 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 > Well, there's people that have it working in a PCI-E slot, so I don't know what to tell you. http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=272283񂞛
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