From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 27 17:58:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.mediadesign.nl (md2.mediadesign.nl [212.19.205.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B2AC837B405 for ; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 17:58:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alson@flutnet.org) Received: (qmail 27222 invoked by uid 1002); 28 Aug 2001 00:58:22 -0000 Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 02:58:22 +0200 From: Alson van der Meulen To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: multi-channel firewire host adaptors available ? Message-ID: <20010828025822.A25482@md2.mediadesign.nl> Mail-Followup-To: hackers@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 05:50:17PM -0700, John Kozubik wrote: > > Has anyone seen multi-channel (up to eight) firewire PCI host adaptors ? > We require full 400Mb throughput on each channel, simultaneously. > > If not up to eight, how dense have you folks seen a single PCI board ? > > (query not limited to just boards with FreeBSD support...) IIRC the bandwidth of the PCI bus is around 1.2Gbit, so eight devices on one single PCI bus won't really work. This might be better for 66mhz/64bit PCI slots though. Correct me if I'm wrong... Alson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message