From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 26 02:19:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA10014 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 26 Feb 1996 02:19:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from tfs.com (tfs.com [140.145.250.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA10008 for ; Mon, 26 Feb 1996 02:19:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.tfs.com by tfs.com (smail3.1.28.1) with SMTP id m0tr015-0003wSC; Mon, 26 Feb 96 02:18 PST Received: from localhost.tfs.com (localhost.tfs.com [127.0.0.1]) by critter.tfs.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA11090; Mon, 26 Feb 1996 11:18:47 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: critter.tfs.com: Host localhost.tfs.com didn't use HELO protocol To: Narvi cc: Jake Hamby , hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Go SCSI! Big improvement... In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 26 Feb 1996 11:44:28 +0200." Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 11:18:43 +0100 Message-ID: <11088.825329923@critter.tfs.com> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > 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. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.