From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Max Waterman Subject: Re: Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 00:07:05 +0200 Message-ID: <494C1B09.3000403@fastmail.co.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: LinuxRaid List-Id: linux-raid.ids Iain Rauch wrote: >> I'm looking into getting another drive and have noticed I've run out of >> SATA ports (and EIDE, as it happens). >> >> So, I'm looking at a PCI card for SATA and went back to look at that >> Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 card - I've had my eye on it for a few years, or >> perhaps it was a previous version of the same thing, I'm not sure. >> >> Anyway, I'm worried that it isn't the correct bus type for my computer. >> I'm confused by the PCI-X and PCIe types, and I don't have access to my >> computer over Christmas. >> >> My motherboard is some consumer level MSI board, and I just added an >> nVidia graphics card on the same bus (it used one of the two longer slots). >> >> Could someone with better knowledge of such things hazzard a guess? >> > > I'm sure you will have PCI on your board, but it's unlikely that you have > PCI-X. You can use the PCI-X card in a PCI slot, but the speed will be > reduced. > If you have PCIe slots (which is likely if the board is less than a couple > of years old), you are better to use them as they are faster than PCI/PCI-X. > OK, so it sounds like my suspicions were correct - I have PCI/PCIe. You say I would be better to use PCIe, but the card is PCI-X. Can I use PCI-X in a PCIe slot? Max. > > Iain > > >