From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 10 20:02:34 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA13716 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 20:02:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail0.atl.bellsouth.net (sgi-b.bellsouth.net [205.152.0.27] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA13708 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 20:02:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wghicks@bellsouth.net) Received: from wghicks.bellsouth.net (host-209-214-66-103.atl.bellsouth.net [209.214.66.103]) by mail0.atl.bellsouth.net (8.8.8-spamdog/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA15052; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 23:02:19 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wghicks.bellsouth.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id XAA03084; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 23:19:42 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net) To: mike@smith.net.au Cc: mrcpu@internetcds.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Passive backplane PC's? 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> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.93 on XEmacs 20.4 (Emerald) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <19990210231941U.wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net> Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 23:19:41 -0500 From: W Gerald Hicks X-Dispatcher: imput version 980905(IM100) Lines: 40 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > > > > > > 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