Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: felix@×××××××.com
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Getting around ancient SATA disk size limitations
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 15:00:08
Message-Id: 20120618145630.GR4722@crowfix.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Getting around ancient SATA disk size limitations by pk
1 On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 04:48:09PM +0200, pk wrote:
2 > That would be a possibility of course... but if that fails he also have
3 > this option:
4 > http://www.areca.com.tw/products/pcix.htm
5 > (I'm sure there are similar options from other manufacturers)...
6
7 My google-fu is deteriorating. I didn't see this or the USB 3.0 PCI
8 card, everything was for PCI-e.
9
10 This motherboard has some weird mixture of PCI and PXI-X slots. Don't
11 remember the tricks right now, but I can't put a good graphics card in
12 it without slowing down the SCSI drives, I think. Since it's a server
13 mostly, that doesn't matter, but I'll have to refresh my memory before
14 getting this card. Thanks for the lead.
15
16 --
17 ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._.
18 Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / felix@×××××××.com
19 GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933
20 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o