Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 12:09:57 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> To: David Miller <dmiller@search.sparks.net> Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Multiple PCI busses? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009221159250.44559-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009220738510.4905-100000@search.sparks.net>
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On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, David Miller wrote: > Hi All:) > > Is anyone using FreeBSD on hardware with multiple independent PCI busses > to increase total bus bandwidth? All the time. Most systems worth being called "servers" have multiple independent PCI busses. > I got an Abit KT7 mobo with 6 pci slots and expected to find > multiple pci busses, but my three scsi and ethernet controllers > seem to share the same bus. > > I'm interested in putting together an eight to twelve port 100 > Mbit router, and any way I slice it a single PCI bus comes up as a > hard limit pretty quickly. I'm not aware of any multi-port > ethernet cards with fast or wide interfaces, (anyone know of any?) > so am looking for recommendations on multiple PCI busses. If you're putting together your own system, try the ASUS CUR-DLS, which uses the ServerWorks ServerSet III LE chipset. It has dual independent PCI busses on it, with two 66MHz/64-bit PCI slots and five 33MHz/32-bit slots. Otherwise, most of the servers from the likes of Dell, IBM, Compaq, etc. all use multiple PCI busses. The Compaq ML530 I have here has no less than four independent PCI busses, and I use it as an 100Mbit*8-port router, among other things. -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For Intel x86 and Alpha architectures. ( http://www.freebsd.org ) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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