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On 22 July 2020 10:53:57 CEST, "Gerrit Kühn" <gerrit.kuehn@×××××××.de> wrote: |
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>Am Wed, 22 Jul 2020 10:43:39 +0200 |
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>schrieb Gerrit Kühn <gerrit.kuehn@×××××××.de>: |
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>> > Are there any SAS drive controller cards that go in a PCI slot (Not |
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>PCI |
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>> > express). I suspect it's a silly question but I'd like to find |
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>one. |
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>> I don't know any. |
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>Looking around, I just found two (old) PCI-X based models. If I |
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>remember |
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>correctly, PCI-X cards should work in PCI slots (given there is enough |
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>physical place to fit them). |
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>ICP Vortex 9085LI, PCI-X (2216800-R) |
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>LSI Logic SAS 3442X-R, SAS, PCI-X (LSI00164) |
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>Don't know if you can still buy these anywhere (2nd hand maybe?). Be |
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>warned that the LSI one has a Broadcom SAS1068E chipset which afaicr is |
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>known to be limited to 2TB drives. |
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>cu |
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> Gerrit |
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Not all PCI-X cards work in normal PCI slots. I had 1 of those and it would only work in the PCI-X slot I had at the time. Considering how rare those cards and supporting mainboards were even back then, I wouldn't trust compatibility promises too much. |
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Joost |
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