From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 10 16:52:06 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA20859 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 16:52:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA20854 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 16:52:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from localhost (mjacob@localhost) by feral.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA10482; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 16:51:14 -0800 Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 16:51:13 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob X-Sender: mjacob@feral-gw Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Mike Smith cc: Jaye Mathisen , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Passive backplane PC's? In-Reply-To: <199902110041.QAA01517@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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. > Expensive? Siliconrax has them for ~200$- not bad when you consider it includes all standard I/O stuff. My main box is a 5 PIC-MIG system each with one ISA and one PCI per PIC-MIG CPU. It's rather a nice arrangement for one box, although I could wish for separate power for each segment. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message