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Date:      Mon, 02 Aug 2004 11:22:27 +1000
From:      Andrew Sinclair <syncman@optusnet.com.au>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
Subject:   Re: [OT] 64-bit PCI in 32-bit slots??? crazy??
Message-ID:  <410D9753.1040403@optusnet.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20040730163230.63186325.wmoran@potentialtech.com>
References:  <20040730163230.63186325.wmoran@potentialtech.com>

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Bill Moran wrote:

>I'm inheriting some hardware.
>
>These boards have 64-bit PCI SATA cards jammed in 32-bit PCI slots.  Oddly
>enough, the boxen boot and start Linux (which will be replaced with FreeBSD
>when I'm done)
>
>I guess my question is hardware-related.  I mean, I can't believe this
>worked!  Has anyone else seen/done this?  Is this as crazy as it seems to
>me?
>  
>
Please check out this site:

http://www.pcisig.com/specifications/pcix_20/

As you will see, PCI-X is up to 533MHz bus speeds now and the standard 
is still backwards compatible with PCI.



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