Date: Sun, 8 Oct 1995 12:24:27 -0400 From: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VLB Disk Controllers Message-ID: <199510081624.MAA26463@etinc.com>
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J. Gibbs writes.... >> >>The effect seems to be very pronounced on vlb disk controller cards with >>other i/o on board. > >You have to be carefull of your motherboard and videocard in any VLB >implementation and even more so if you go about 40MHz. I've seen video >cards corrupt bus mastering transfers before and lots of motherboards that >don't work with VLB busmasters. I've never experienced a problem on my >hardware, and those who have complained to me about the 2842 not working >correctly later discovered it was their video card, motherboard or a memory >problem. There are also a lot of VLB "super I/O" cards out there that are >pure junk. We aren't talking about IDE interfaces anyway. In a nutshell, yes. Find a good MB and know your cards and you'll be fine. We do local routing with dual vlb ethernet cards. They're fast and they work just dandy. dennis
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