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Date:      Mon, 26 Feb 1996 11:18:43 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
To:        Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>
Cc:        Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Go SCSI! Big improvement... 
Message-ID:  <11088.825329923@critter.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 26 Feb 1996 11:44:28 %2B0200." <Pine.BSF.3.91.960226114046.4058B-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> 

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> 
> On Sun, 25 Feb 1996, Jake Hamby wrote:
> 
> > Just wanted to mention that I finally upgraded my box at home to SCSI.. 
> > The main thing that was holding me back before was that I needed to
> > replace my VLB IDE card with a plain old ISA one because you can only have
> > 2 VLB cards on a motherboard, not three (thanks to Joerg for pointing this
> > out!).  Now I've got a Quantum Lightning 730MB SCSI in there, and the
> 
> Why not? Do you really want to say it was just a joke on the 
> manufacturer's part to put *three* VLB slots on the motherboards?
yes, more or less.

Only very carefully selected combinations can run with all three slots
populated, and only seldom at full speed.

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Poul-Henning Kamp           | phk@FreeBSD.ORG       FreeBSD Core-team.
http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk    Private mailbox.
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Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.



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