From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 26 02:43:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA11067 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 26 Feb 1996 02:43:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA11054 for ; Mon, 26 Feb 1996 02:42:21 -0800 (PST) Received: (from narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA04349; Mon, 26 Feb 1996 12:39:10 +0200 Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 12:39:08 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi To: Poul-Henning Kamp cc: Jake Hamby , hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Go SCSI! Big improvement... In-Reply-To: <11088.825329923@critter.tfs.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 26 Feb 1996, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > > > > > 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. > OK. Most implementations do restrict the population of the VLB slots, most notably with max 2 bus-masters. Still, a configuration with a VLB GUI accelerator, a VLB IDE and a SCSI busmaster should work in most cases. But of course, it may not. Just in addition to that and a bit off the course - I saw an ad for a combined SCSI/IDE/floppy/IO VLB controller lately. I not sure about FreeBSD support for such a beast (actually, it sounds something like no), but such a thing could be a thing to boost many not so old machines made pefore the PCI which happen to have just two VLB slots. Not much perhaps - but sometimes it counts. > -- > 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. > Sander