Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 23:34:22 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee, phk@critter.tfs.com Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jehamby@lightside.com Subject: Re: Go SCSI! Big improvement... Message-ID: <199602261234.XAA06587@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> > 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. I had no problems with 3 slots populated by a BT445C, a graphics card and a U34F on a non-name motherboard. What was I doing wrong? :-) Bruce
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