From owner-freebsd-hardware  Mon Sep 16 02:15:08 1996
Return-Path: owner-hardware
Received: (from root@localhost)
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA22670
          for hardware-outgoing; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 02:15:08 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from dv.op.dlr.de (dv.op.dlr.de [129.247.188.46])
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA22649
          for <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org>; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 02:14:59 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from havel.robotic.dlr.de (havel.robotic.dlr.de [129.247.189.22]) by dv.op.dlr.de (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA78484; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 11:14:22 +0200
Received: by havel.robotic.dlr.de (940816.SGI.8.6.9/940406.SGI.AUTO)
	 id LAA08531; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 11:14:07 +0200
From: Joerg.Langwald@dlr.de (Joerg Langwald)
Message-Id: <199609160914.LAA08531@havel.robotic.dlr.de>
Subject: Re: Any Pentium boards with more than 4 PCI slots?
To: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes)
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 96 11:14:06 MDT
Cc: se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE, grog@lemis.de, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org,
        asami@cs.berkeley.edu
In-Reply-To: <199609151852.LAA04704@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>; from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Sep 15, 96 11:52 am
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11]
Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org
X-Loop: FreeBSD.org
Precedence: bulk

> 
> >  > 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 ...
> > 
> > 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?

Look at http://www.bit3.com/expanuni.html .

> Where did you get it?
> How much did it cost?
> 
> Also what MB are you using with this?
> 

Joerg.