On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 08:08:57PM -0500, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
>On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 07:24:55PM -0500, George Georgalis wrote:
>> >There are two slot types, PCI-X and PCI-E, from the spec you had 
>> >attached, you have PCI-E (Express).
>> >
>> >The boards you have linked are all PCI-X.  All three look to have the 
>> >RAID controller on the card as well.
>
>I don't know whose mail you're quoting.  However, none of the SCSI or FC
>controllers anyone recommended to you on this list (or that you mentioned
>on this list) have "the RAID controller on the card" so I am not sure if
>your source is trustworthy.

this thread is about getting an external raid assembly running under netbsd.

initially I thought I'd have to use FC with the desired assembly.

turns out, the assembly is available with a u320 interface.

I suggested a Tekram or LSI based SCSI host adapters I found from 
http://netbsd.org/Hardware/pci.html to the vendor who pointed out
I was trying to use PCI-X RAID cards in a PCI-E system.

The vendor recommended a PCI-E HBA card but it doesn't seem compatible.

>Are you trying to get across that your fileserver is already configured
>with PCI Express slots only?  If not, just use something with a PCI-X
>slot, and use the PCI-X Apple FC HBA someone already recommended to you.

I'm looking for a PCI-E netbsd compatible u320 HBA.

the apple/lsi (or any FC) is not what we need.

>The other choice that will work with NetBSD is a Qlogic PCI-X (or 64-bit,
>133MHz PCI fibrechannel HBA).  I do not know if Qlogic makes any PCI
>Express cards but I would think they probably do.  I do not know whether
>any such cards are supported by the "isp" qlogic driver in NetBSD, either.

I'll start digging for a ISP(4) pci-e...

// George


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George Georgalis, systems architect, administrator <IXOYE><