From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SgdR2-0003e6-7q for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 15:00:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0742FE0595; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 14:59:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from crowfix.com (li35-165.members.linode.com [72.14.176.165]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 221D8E07B3 for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 14:56:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 25927 invoked from network); 18 Jun 2012 14:58:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO df.crowfix.com) (10.130.13.2) by 10.130.13.1 with SMTP; 18 Jun 2012 14:58:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 21126 invoked by uid 1000); 18 Jun 2012 14:56:30 -0000 Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 07:56:30 -0700 From: felix@crowfix.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Getting around ancient SATA disk size limitations Message-ID: <20120618145630.GR4722@crowfix.com> References: <20120618061624.GJ4722@crowfix.com> <4FDF3753.6070000@coolmail.se> <4FDF3FA9.8030205@coolmail.se> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4FDF3FA9.8030205@coolmail.se> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: 4e57ff79-d1ef-4d94-9c4b-66a1e7e9dbce X-Archives-Hash: eac282b35ce5457317af5f0422cc65e4 On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 04:48:09PM +0200, pk wrote: > That would be a possibility of course... but if that fails he also have > this option: > http://www.areca.com.tw/products/pcix.htm > (I'm sure there are similar options from other manufacturers)... My google-fu is deteriorating. I didn't see this or the USB 3.0 PCI card, everything was for PCI-e. This motherboard has some weird mixture of PCI and PXI-X slots. Don't remember the tricks right now, but I can't put a good graphics card in it without slowing down the SCSI drives, I think. Since it's a server mostly, that doesn't matter, but I'll have to refresh my memory before getting this card. Thanks for the lead. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / felix@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o