From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 1 05:51:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA22562 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 1 May 1997 05:51:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gargoyle.bazzle.com (gargoyle.bazzle.com [206.103.246.190]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA22557 for ; Thu, 1 May 1997 05:51:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gargoyle.bazzle.com (gargoyle.bazzle.com [206.103.246.189]) by gargoyle.bazzle.com (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id IAA02565; Thu, 1 May 1997 08:51:43 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 08:51:43 -0400 (EDT) From: "Eric J. Chet" To: Michael Smith cc: Wilson MacGyver , Don@PartsNow.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 7860 In-Reply-To: <199705010236.MAA02021@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 1 May 1997, Michael Smith wrote: > Wilson MacGyver stands accused of saying: > > Michael Smith wrote: > > > The 7860 on the newer 2940's can only track three. There is support > > > (the SCBPAGING option) for shuffling among these three to handle more > > > simultaneous transactions, but obviously this requires more work on > > > the part of the driver. > > > So does all adptect 2940 use the 7860 now? I was getting ready to > > buy a 5-6 of them, as well as several motherboards that has it > > built-in. > > According to Rod Grimes, yes. At least one motherboard (the Tekram > P5H30-WS) is still using the 7880, as of our last purchase a few weeks > back. Hello The GigaByte-586DX mainboard also uses the 7880 chip. Another plus with this board is that it supports two pentiums. 8) It sells for about $300 with 512K of pipeline burst cache. Eric > > > -- Wilson MacGyver macgyver@db-net.com > > -- > ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ > ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ > ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ > ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ > ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[ >