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To: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net>
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Drew Tomlinson writes:
 > Thanks for the help.  I'm real new to the Alpha and haven't found much in
 > the way of documentation on the web.  I can tell from the console 'show
 > config' command that my graphics card is in slot 4.  Do you have any idea if
 > this is a 32 or 64 bit slot?  If I physically open the box, can I tell the
 > difference by looking?  How?  I assume the 64 bit slots would be longer as
 > they'd have more pins?


Yes.  You can also tell via 'pciconf -lv'  from FreeBSD, or 'show
conf' at the SRM prompt.

The 64-bit slots are directly on the main pci bus; the 32-bit slots
are behind a dec pci-pci bridge.    If your video board is in a 64-bit
slot, it should appear on bus 0.

Drew

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