From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 10 16:45:50 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA20042 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 16:45:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles202.castles.com [208.214.165.202]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA20031 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 16:45:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA01517; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 16:41:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199902110041.QAA01517@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Jaye Mathisen cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Passive backplane PC's? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 10 Feb 1999 16:33:49 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 16:41:20 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > 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