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Installing a PCI-Express 8 controller into PCI-Express 16 slot on an Intel D975XBX2/Also Mac G4 e-Mail Question

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Laputa

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Not sure if this is the right forum to post, but this is more or less a technical issue that I'm running into. Just let me know if it's not. The motherboard that I got is an Intel D975XBX2 with 3 PCI-E 16 slots. One is currently being used by a video card and I need to install a LSI LOGIC LSI00151 PCI Express SATA / SAS Eight-Port Host Bus Adapter. Currently I have everything setup and running at ideal configuration without issues with 8x SATA. Only problem I'm dealing with now is I have 8x 300GB SAS drives that was in a RAID 5 setup that I need to connect to this system. If I can get these drives connected I can do the virtual rebuild and migrate the data over. Then I can use those SAS drives to make room for some other larger applications like Exchange or SQL.

My real question is that will the 2 remainding PCI-E 16 slot take the LSI PCI-E 8 controller without problem or will it? Since the slot will fit with no problem, I assume it's going to work. However, I would like your expert opinion before firing it up and then find out it burn out my motherboard or any one of the SAS drives.

I can connect the SAS drives to a 64-bit controller, but doing that will mean that I have to yank out the new motherboard and install a older serverboard and configure everything from scratch. Or pulling 5+TB of data over the network with the old system. I would like to avoid this if possible.

So if you have installed a PCI-E 8 card into a PCI-E 16 slot, your expert opinion will be greatly appreciated! I don't want the go ahead and try it stuff if you don't know or never experience with this situation; cause doing so will mean possibly killing 5.6TB of data on those 8 drives on a RAID 5 setup.

Also:
Any of you guys know what kind of default e-mail program that a Mac G4 system use and where the data files are stored. I checked the MS Entourage file and it shows blank...
 
Originally posted by: Laputa
Not sure if this is the right forum to post, but this is more or less a technical issue that I'm running into. Just let me know if it's not. The motherboard that I got is an Intel D975XBX2 with 3 PCI-E 16 slots. One is currently being used by a video card and I need to install a LSI LOGIC LSI00151 PCI Express SATA / SAS Eight-Port Host Bus Adapter. Currently I have everything setup and running at ideal configuration without issues with 8x SATA. Only problem I'm dealing with now is I have 8x 300GB SAS drives that was in a RAID 5 setup that I need to connect to this system. If I can get these drives connected I can do the virtual rebuild and migrate the data over. Then I can use those SAS drives to make room for some other larger applications like Exchange or SQL.

My real question is that will the 2 remainding PCI-E 16 slot take the LSI PCI-E 8 controller without problem or will it? Since the slot will fit with no problem, I assume it's going to work. However, I would like your expert opinion before firing it up and then find out it burn out my motherboard or any one of the SAS drives.

I can connect the SAS drives to a 64-bit controller, but doing that will mean that I have to yank out the new motherboard and install a older serverboard and configure everything from scratch. Or pulling 5+TB of data over the network with the old system. I would like to avoid this if possible.

So if you have installed a PCI-E 8 card into a PCI-E 16 slot, your expert opinion will be greatly appreciated! I don't want the go ahead and try it stuff if you don't know or never experience with this situation; cause doing so will mean possibly killing 5.6TB of data on those 8 drives on a RAID 5 setup.

Also:
Any of you guys know what kind of default e-mail program that a Mac G4 system use and where the data files are stored. I checked the MS Entourage file and it shows blank...
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I can likely answer the mac question.

It depends on whether the G4 was a model that came with OS9 OS10 or both. For OSX the default mail program is just mac mail. for OS9 I THINK it was outlook express but its been a while since ive used 9 so i could be wrong
 
Thanks, found the Mac Mail that was running on OSX. Everything look very good and they were actually located in the Users' Library's Mail folder. Appreciate all your answers.
 
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