3ware cards work in AMD64 port?
Toll, Eric
etoll at vipstructures.com
Mon Jun 6 16:55:09 GMT 2005
> 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.
Yes, it will work fine. I think I paid $148.00 USD for the
card.
It will still be faster than software raid.
*Easy* to set up too! Alt+3 to access the 3Ware bios util
at post time.
Create the RAID set. Save, Boot AMD64 CD, Install FreeBSD
normally, e.g. just like you would for a single disk system.
Eric
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