From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Aug 8 08:16:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA13206 for hardware-outgoing; Thu, 8 Aug 1996 08:16:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tyger.inna.net (root@tyger.inna.net [206.151.66.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA13190; Thu, 8 Aug 1996 08:16:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from caught.inna.net (tom@caught.inna.net [206.151.66.7]) by tyger.inna.net (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA20548; Thu, 8 Aug 1996 11:22:33 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 11:16:34 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas Arnold To: Joe Greco cc: isp@freebsd.org, hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PCI Motherboards.. In-Reply-To: <199608080204.VAA03627@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 7 Aug 1996, Joe Greco wrote: > I am not looking for any ol' PCI MB. I am looking for a MB that can > handle multiple bus masters correctly (i.e. 486/Saturn II, or 586/Triton > chipsets, etc). That's still not the hard part. > > I need to be able to handle 3 or 4 long PCI cards. > > The ASUS SP3G's and ASUS Triton-I boards I have here both have the CPU > right in the wrong spot. Have a look at the Tyan Tomcat-I. 3 of the PCI slots are unobstructed, the fourth is in line with the CAIST socket. +-----------------------------------------------+ : Tom Arnold - No relation to Rosanne : : SysAdmin/Pres - TBI, Ltd ( inna.net ) : : The Middle Peninsula's Internet Connection : +-----------------------------------------------+