From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Aug 7 19:51:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA28572 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 19:51:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA28533; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 19:50:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id MAA24028; Thu, 8 Aug 1996 12:32:44 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199608080302.MAA24028@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: PCI Motherboards.. To: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco) Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 12:32:44 +0930 (CST) Cc: isp@freebsd.org, hardware@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199608080204.VAA03627@brasil.moneng.mei.com> from "Joe Greco" at Aug 7, 96 09:04:14 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Joe Greco stands accused of saying: > > 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. The current Soyo Triton boards have the CPU placed such that you can fit 3 long PCI cards (and only one long ISA card). These boards work very well for us; they have 256K PB cache on the board (still have a PB slot for more if you need it, but that would occlude one of the long PCI slots). They're also pretty cheap. > One of my PC vendor friends is pulling in a number of boards for eval, > but I thought I would ask here first. Your pal should have no trouble sourcing Soyo boards; if you need a proper part number let me know, but basically "Soyo Triton PB cache board" should be all they need. > Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[