Firewire Card for a server with 66 mhz pci slots?

[arib0nd]

Are there any firewire cards which work in 66 mhz pci slots? My boss wants me to look into this since we have a server which needs a firewire card. A search on google hasn't turned up anything obvious.

Any ideas ?

Thanks
Ari

 

[wlee]

Doesn't you server also have 32bit/33mhz slots in addition to 64bit ? Anyway, you might have a look into the new Adaptec AUA-3121. It's listed as PCI2.2 compliant, so it *MAY* work @ 66mhz.

 

[bozo1]

The only thing I've seen 66Mhz is Raid, Fibre Channel controllers, Gigabit Ethernet cards and a few SCSI adapters from LSI.

It wouldn't make much sense for them to make a 66Mhz firewire card as firewire doesn't even come close to approaching 33Mhz speed.

As far as a regular firewire card working in a 66Mhz slot, that depends on the system. If you are talking about the new dual AMD boards based on the MPx chipset, then no, there are no regular PCI cards that will work in those slots. There are some servers that have 64-bit, 66MHz slots on them that are backwards compatable with standard PCI cards, some models of Compaq Proliants to name a few.