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Thanks for clearing it up. Looks like I'll be taking an out-of-band approach, SAS expanders don't seem like something you can wire together yourself ;)

I've been working on retrofitting an old SCSI Powervault to SAS/SATA. (Yes, silly, but fun!) The plan is to use an adaptec 3805, switch from internal mini-SAS (SFF 8087) to external mini-SAS (SFF 8088) at the host and back to internal mini-SAS at the backplane and fan out from there. Will...

It stupidly took me a month to figure this out (and three installs) so I'll document it here since this is one of the first hits on google (where I have an account): Use the green port for stereo on Vista. I got no sound on the other ports (which worked fine in XP).

You need to set the word separator (which is any whitespace by default) IFS=$'\n' for dir in `ls /vmstorage/` do list[count]=$dir echo "$count: $dir" count=$((count+1)) done or use bash's built-in filename expansion for dir in /vmstorage/* do list[count]=$dir echo "$count...

If anyone has had experience with non-video cards in the PCI-E x16 slots of any of these boards then I'd also greatly appreciate it. I've heard horror-stories of it before. Any way to determine if it'd work from specs?

No specific cards thought out yet. RAID/SATA controllers for large storage arrays, NICs for high throughput proxies, traffic monitors, shapers, IDS/IPS and whatnot. Study networking (and distributed systems) and work with media clusters. I expect work will be supplying most of the cards and...

I'd love to get the tyan, especially with the IPMI daughter board. Finally found it for 400e (w/ IPMI) shipped from germany (myself in .fi). On top of that it seems like I'd still need a sound card for it - an external one as the IPMI board uses the lone PCI slot. The P5WDG2 WS Pro is seeming...

I'm looking for a decent motherboard with PCI-X. I'd be using it with a Q6600/X3220 and a 8800 GTS. I'll be mostly gaming with it to begin with, but need PCI-X for testing RAID cards and multi-port GigE NICs. I've been looking at the P5NT WS, P5K WS and P5WDG2 WS Pro, but can't decide from...