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Date:      Thu, 13 Aug 1998 13:26:34 -0400 (EDT)
From:      The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
To:        Tom <tom@uniserve.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: More PCI Slots... (fwd)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.02.9808131324580.4823-100000@hub.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980813100929.19010C-100000@shell.uniserve.ca>

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On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Tom wrote:

> 
> On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> 
> > Sorry, I couldn't think of anywhere else more appropriate...but, is this
> > restricted to only Sun's, or has anyone looked at similar under an
> > Intel/PCI environment?
> 
>   PCI extender boxes have been available for a long time.  Not long ago
> there was a mention of someone who hooked several of these up to a FreeBSD
> system.

	The OS doesn't need to do anything special to recognize them?  Are
there any limitations?

	At work, we are looking at a Sparc Enterprise 450, which has 10PCI
slots spread over something like 3-4 PCI busses...do the extende do
something like that, or is it all one big bus?



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