Date: Sun, 15 Sep 1996 11:52:18 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> To: se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE (Stefan Esser) Cc: grog@lemis.de, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, asami@cs.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: Any Pentium boards with more than 4 PCI slots? Message-ID: <199609151852.LAA04704@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199609151558.RAA00745@x14.mi.uni-koeln.de> from Stefan Esser at "Sep 15, 96 05:58:32 pm"
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> Greg Lehey writes: > > Does anybody know of Pentium boards which support more than 4 PCI > > Hmmm, I seem to remember there was one with 5, > but that's not what you are looking for ... > > > slots? One of my customers has a requirement for up to 8 or 10 > > slots. My understanding is that this is only possible with a PCI > > bridge--is this correct? If so (and even if not, I suppose), how > > Yes, there are PCI bus extension boxes for this > purpose. Satoshi uses one for his large disk array. > They use TWO PCI to PCI bridge chips, one that sits > in any PCI slot of your motherboard, the other is > at the other end of the extender cable, and wired > to the second back plane. Okay, Satoshi, who makes it? Where did you get it? How much did it cost? Also what MB are you using with this? -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD
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