From owner-freebsd-smp Wed Jul 16 19:07:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA25850 for smp-outgoing; Wed, 16 Jul 1997 19:07:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.webspan.net (root@mail.webspan.net [206.154.70.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA25845 for ; Wed, 16 Jul 1997 19:07:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (orion.webspan.net [206.154.70.5]) by mail.webspan.net (WEBSPAN/970608) with ESMTP id WAA25444; Wed, 16 Jul 1997 22:07:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by orion.webspan.net (WEBSPAN/970608) with ESMTP id WAA10135; Wed, 16 Jul 1997 22:07:21 -0400 (EDT) To: vanmaren@fast.cs.utah.edu (Kevin Van Maren) cc: ade@demon.net, smp@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: HEADS UP: EISA cards. In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 16 Jul 1997 19:14:20 MDT." <199707170114.TAA28520@fast.cs.utah.edu> Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 22:07:21 -0400 Message-ID: <10133.869105241@orion.webspan.net> Sender: owner-smp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Kevin Van Maren wrote in message ID <199707170114.TAA28520@fast.cs.utah.edu>: > As for more PCI slots, there are a few motherboards with 6+ slots. > Usually in high-end servers. A few motherboards support 5 PCI > slots, on one PCI bus. But beyond that you need multiple PCI busses > which involves a bridge chip. Award BIOS can only deal with one bridge. Actually, as I'm sure others will tell you, some motherboards have two (non bridged) PCI busses. I believe the Intel Alder server for one. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info