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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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