Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 16:41:20 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@internetcds.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Passive backplane PC's? Message-ID: <199902110041.QAA01517@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 10 Feb 1999 16:33:49 PST." <Pine.NEB.3.95.990210163234.11176T-100000@schizo.cdsnet.net>
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> > > I see these ads every now and again for these boxes with passive PCI > backplanes, and 14 slots, and such. > > Would one of these hold 14 4 port Znyx cards? Is it some kind of special > chipset? Do we support it? I'm just not real familiar with this kind of > system as opposed to the more common PC hardware. Most of these boards with large slot counts are ISA backplanes. There are a few around with multiple PCI busses (in most cases you get 7 slots, with 4 behind a bridge). Typically, you will also be paying for a (quite expensive) PICMG CPU card to go with the backplane; probably not so much of an issue if you're looking at such a stoked system. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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