On Jun 3, 2013, at 1:09, Warren Block <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 3 Jun 2013, Alban Hertroys wrote: >>> >>> Really, the easiest way would be to temporarily install the old RAID >>> controller and copy the data off the array. >> >> Well, that would mean I'd have to assemble the old server again, as the >> controller is not compatible with the hardware in the new one. And that >> would probably be unnecessary as well, since I already did copy the data off >> those disks. >> >> I was just curious whether it would be possible to read that data off the >> disks while I still have them (with their original contents) in the new >> server in the eventuality that I _did_ forget to copy something over or that >> something wasn't copied over correctly. >> >> I copied the data over a 100MBit ethernet link, which was the fastest option >> I had with the old server; it had USB1 and no native SATA. Hence the RAID >> controller, but that was on a now deprecated PCI-X channel (those 64-bit >> parallel things) and all 4 ports were in use. Not to mention that the CPU >> was so old that it had a rather narrow margin for operating temperatures and >> overheated several times during the copying process, because rsync+sshd put >> a relatively high load on the CPU (An old Athlon XP 2000+). > > PCI-X cards will operate in PCI slots. Or at least some will; I've done that > with an Intel network card. The motherboard can't have components that block > the unused part of the edge connector, or the offending card edge could be > removed with extreme prejudice.
Not this 3Ware card. I remember buying that particular motherboard because the card wouldn't fit in the PCI slots on the board I had. There's a division in those PCI-X slots opposite of where there's one in normal PCI slots and no groove in the card to match the division in the PCI slot. Alban Hertroys -- If you can't see the forest for the trees, cut the trees and you'll find there is no forest. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
