From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Oct 18 23:42:38 1995 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id XAA11988 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 18 Oct 1995 23:42:38 -0700 Received: from ibp.ibp.fr (ibp.ibp.fr [132.227.60.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id XAA11983 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 1995 23:42:35 -0700 Received: from blaise.ibp.fr (blaise.ibp.fr [132.227.60.1]) by ibp.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with ESMTP id HAA19627 ; Thu, 19 Oct 1995 07:42:32 +0100 Received: from (uucp@localhost) by blaise.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with UUCP id HAA07352 ; Thu, 19 Oct 1995 07:42:32 +0100 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.7.1/keltia-uucp-2.6) id VAA09126; Wed, 18 Oct 1995 21:53:26 +0100 (MET) From: Ollivier Robert Message-Id: <199510182053.VAA09126@keltia.freenix.fr> Subject: Re: motherboards with parity? To: jmrueda@diatel.upm.es (Javier Martin Rueda) Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 21:53:26 +0100 (MET) Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <826*/S=jmrueda/OU=diatel/O=upm/PRMD=iris/ADMD=mensatex/C=es/@MHS> from "Javier Martin Rueda" at Oct 18, 95 04:05:57 pm X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT ctm#1215 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8b] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk It seems that Javier Martin Rueda said: > I'm planning to buy an ASUS PCI/I-P54NP4D motherboard (dual Pentium) > Anyhow, that motherboard uses the Neptune chipset, and I will put at > least a couple of PCI cards in it (SCSI and Ethernet). The real problem is that Neptune can handle reliably only *two* bus-master devices. With one SCSI card and one Ethernet, you should be ok. Add a third one and you lose. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #0: Sat Oct 14 19:05:10 MET 1995