From owner-freebsd-small Tue Apr 17 15:55:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A354337B422 for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 15:55:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (cdillon@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA29586; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 17:55:43 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 17:55:43 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Dillon To: Soren Kristensen Cc: Subject: Re: The ultimate board! In-Reply-To: <3ADCC317.AAE544DD@soekris.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Soren Kristensen wrote: > Hi Chris, > > Does the board you will be making have both the MiniPCI and the > > regular PCI slot on them like the board on the website? I'm not sure > > what MiniPCI is supposed to look like, but the card edge connector > > hanging off the left side of the board in the picture on your website > > looks like it would be the regular 3.3V PCI slot, right? Is the area > > just below the CompactFlash slot (which looks somewhat like a pad for > > a PCMCIA slot) actually where the MiniPCI slot would go? If so, is > > MiniPCI similar to or even compatible with CardBus? Or is that for an > > actual PCMCIA/CardBus slot? :-) > > The board will have both the Std 3.3V PCI and the MiniPCI type III > slot. The Area just below the CF socket is the MiniPCI type III > socket, which is a 124 pins DIMM connector. (almost the same as > laptop memory DIMM's) Cool! Are there many manufacturers who are making peripherals in the MiniPCI form factor yet? One interest might be a MiniPCI 802.11b card. > > Also, how hard would it be to put 64MB on it? You might need to put > > 32MB on all of the units to keep manufacturing costs down, but if it > > isn't a big deal to put 64MB on some of them for people who need/want > > that much memory, I'll spring for that. > > I'm planning to offer both 32 Mbyte and 64 Mbyte version, as there > seem to be interest for that. The 64 Mbyte will probably cost > around $25 more, as 256 Mbit chips is still relative more > expensive. I had figured about $30 more. $25 is even better. :-) -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For IA32 and Alpha architectures. IA64, PPC, and ARM under development. http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message