3ware cards work in AMD64 port?

[Freddie Cash]

On June 6, 2005 09:01 am, Francisco Reyes wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Toll, Eric wrote:
> > I really like it.  You need a *64* Bit PCI slot to fully
> > utilize the cards speed.

> Will it work on a 32bit slot?
> The load on the system will be small. I just want RAID 1 for
> protection.. so the loss of speed because of using 32bit won't matter
> much.

If the load is low, and you only want RAID1, have you considered the 
software RAID capabilities of ccd(4), gmirror(8), and gvium(8)?

I'm using gmirror on a server at home running 2 120 GB IDE drives off a 
Promise PCI IDE card.  Setup was simple, initial synchronisation was 
fairly quick (considering it's only a P2 333MHz system with 384 MB RAM), 
and array rebuild after pulling the cable on one drive was also fairly 
fast.

As for running PCI-X cards (64-bit, 66/100/133 MHz) in 32-bit PCI slots, 
most of them will work, albeit a lot slower than they could.  Depends on 
how the card's connector is keyed.
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