From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 26 04:40:30 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id EAA16543 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 26 Feb 1996 04:40:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.19]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA16533 for ; Mon, 26 Feb 1996 04:40:10 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id XAA06587; Mon, 26 Feb 1996 23:34:22 +1100 Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 23:34:22 +1100 From: Bruce Evans Message-Id: <199602261234.XAA06587@godzilla.zeta.org.au> To: narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee, phk@critter.tfs.com Subject: Re: Go SCSI! Big improvement... Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jehamby@lightside.com Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk >> > 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