From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Sep 15 11:55:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA08169 for hardware-outgoing; Sun, 15 Sep 1996 11:55:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from GndRsh.aac.dev.com (GndRsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA08161 for ; Sun, 15 Sep 1996 11:55:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by GndRsh.aac.dev.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA04704; Sun, 15 Sep 1996 11:52:18 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199609151852.LAA04704@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: Any Pentium boards with more than 4 PCI slots? To: se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE (Stefan Esser) Date: Sun, 15 Sep 1996 11:52:18 -0700 (PDT) Cc: grog@lemis.de, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, asami@cs.berkeley.edu In-Reply-To: <199609151558.RAA00745@x14.mi.uni-koeln.de> from Stefan Esser at "Sep 15, 96 05:58:32 pm" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL11 (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 > 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