From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jul 9 17:35:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA25262 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 9 Jul 1997 17:35:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA25252; Wed, 9 Jul 1997 17:35:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id KAA15352; Thu, 10 Jul 1997 10:04:16 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199707100034.KAA15352@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Q:PCI bridges-extenders supported In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19970709183302.00a743ec@gw1> from Kedar at "Jul 9, 97 11:33:02 am" To: kedar@asacomputers.com (Kedar) Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 10:04:16 +0930 (CST) Cc: se@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Kedar stands accused of saying: > At 07:58 PM 7/9/97 +0200, you wrote: > >There are some Natoma based PCI motherboards that > >come with 5 slots (from ASUS, for example). But > > There is a Supermicro board with *8* PCI slots- The P6DNH. 440FX. > Some VX chipset boards have 5 PCI slots too. This is an I20 board. Do not expect it to work with FreeBSD just yet. Supermicro have a couple of 5-slot Natoma boards (P6SN[EF]), where the E is a baby-AT board and the F is a full-AT board. > Kedar. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[