Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 11:18:43 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> To: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> Cc: Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Go SCSI! Big improvement... Message-ID: <11088.825329923@critter.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 26 Feb 1996 11:44:28 %2B0200." <Pine.BSF.3.91.960226114046.4058B-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>
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> > > On Sun, 25 Feb 1996, Jake Hamby wrote: > > > Just wanted to mention that I finally upgraded my box at home to SCSI.. > > The main thing that was holding me back before was that I needed to > > replace my VLB IDE card with a plain old ISA one because you can only have > > 2 VLB cards on a motherboard, not three (thanks to Joerg for pointing this > > out!). Now I've got a Quantum Lightning 730MB SCSI in there, and the > > Why not? Do you really want to say it was just a joke on the > manufacturer's part to put *three* VLB slots on the motherboards? yes, more or less. Only very carefully selected combinations can run with all three slots populated, and only seldom at full speed. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.
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