Re: Suggestions regarding a PCI-X card.

2012-02-15 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:13:34 -0800, Dan Serban wrote: > On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:26:32 + (UTC) Camaleón > wrote: > >> Mmm, I don't know how reliable it can be that information :-? >> >> ("+" means the flag is enabled and "-" means it is disabled) >> >> Regardless lspci output, I would ensure

Re: Suggestions regarding a PCI-X card.

2012-02-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 2/15/2012 3:13 AM, Dan Serban wrote: > I don't know why I didn't think of that, maybe I spent too much time on > Wikipedia and assumed I'd see 33MHz for all PCI devices. >> No, "capabilities" tells you what the device can do *and* what's it's >> currently doing. Note the 133MHz is under the s

Re: Suggestions regarding a PCI-X card.

2012-02-15 Thread Dan Serban
On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:40:26 -0600 Stan Hoeppner wrote: [snip] > This is an 8 port card, so 16 drives will require 2 cards. Unless you > plan to connect 4 SATA drives and 4 EIDE drives to the mobo ports...ick Indeed it is, I was planning on adding the second after I've tested the first thoroug

Re: Suggestions regarding a PCI-X card.

2012-02-14 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 2/13/2012 7:26 PM, Dan Serban wrote: > Hello all, > > I have recently upgraded my Tyan S2885 motherboard and repurposed it to > become a file server. In doing so, I picked up a Supermicro SAT2-MV8 which > is based on a Marvell chipset. So far everything comes up good, an > am planning on 16 h

Re: Suggestions regarding a PCI-X card.

2012-02-14 Thread Dan Serban
On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:26:32 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > Mmm, I don't know how reliable it can be that information :-? > > ("+" means the flag is enabled and "-" means it is disabled) > > Regardless lspci output, I would ensure the BIOS POST data displays the > right bus frequency for that s

Re: Suggestions regarding a PCI-X card.

2012-02-14 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:26:33 -0800, Dan Serban wrote: (...) > Am I reading the above wrong? Under capabilities is says Status as > well, but earlier it's simply status. So I'm wondering if the bus is at > 66MHz and the card is somehow at 133? I don't fully understand the > output. (...) Mmm,