Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 23:19:41 -0500 From: W Gerald Hicks <wghicks@bellsouth.net> To: mike@smith.net.au Cc: mrcpu@internetcds.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Passive backplane PC's? Message-ID: <19990210231941U.wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 10 Feb 1999 16:41:20 -0800" <199902110041.QAA01517@dingo.cdrom.com> References: <199902110041.QAA01517@dingo.cdrom.com>
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Don't forget CompactPCI, a favorite among us telephony types. Ziatech is a vendor with whom I've enjoyed very good relations. They offer very expert support and high quality products too. Cheers, Jerry Hicks wghicks@bellsouth.net From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> > > > > > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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