> 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. Iain -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
