Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 09:30:10 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: David Miller <dmiller@search.sparks.net> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multiple PCI busses? Message-ID: <200009221630.e8MGUAA00847@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 22 Sep 2000 07:49:06 EDT." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009220738510.4905-100000@search.sparks.net>
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> Is anyone using FreeBSD on hardware with multiple independent PCI busses > to increase total bus bandwidth? Yes. > I got an Abit KT7 mobo with 6 pci slots and expected to find multiple pci > busses, but my three scsi and ethernet controllers seem to share the same > bus. You're not going to find this sort of feature in most low-end boards. > I'm interested in putting together an eight to twelve port 100 Mbit > router, and any way I slice it a single PCI bus comes up as a hard limit > pretty quickly. I'm not aware of any multi-port ethernet cards with fast > or wide interfaces, (anyone know of any?) so am looking for > recommendations on multiple PCI busses. Adaptec have 64-bit versions of their quad-port fast cards. I think they have 66MHz versions as well. At any rate, you might want to consider the Tyan Thunder 2500 as a platform for this sort of work. You'll want to think about memory bandwidth (which this board has in spades) as well. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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