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Date:      Wed, 5 Apr 1995 13:45:37 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Alok K. Dhir" <adhir@bigdipper.umd.edu>
To:        Matt Thomas <matt@lkg.dec.com>
Cc:        Michael Vernick <vernick@cs.sunysb.edu>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: PCI/EISA/ISA performance 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.91.950405134453.6727B-100000@bigdipper.umd.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199504041833.SAA10697@whydos.lkg.dec.com>

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I have been unable to find a 100 mbit hub so far - how is one supposed to 
take advantage of these 100mbit cards w/o a 100mbit hub? 

Thanks...

On Tue, 4 Apr 1995, Matt Thomas wrote:

> > Anyone have any performance results comparing the three types of
> > buses?  I'm interested in disk I/O performance and/or network
> > I/O performance using the three buses and DMA.
> 
> As a rule of thumb, PCI > EISA > ISA.  
> 
> > Also, someone mentioned that the DEC DE500-XA network card is being
> > supported.  Is it a PCI 100Mb/Sec card?
> 
> It is.  Just about 10 minutes ago I got 
> 
> de1 <Digital DC21140 Fast Ethernet> rev 17 int a irq 15 on pci0:8
>         reg20: virtual=0xf1d05100 physical=0x20000100 size=0x80
> de1: enabling 10baseT UTP port
> de1: DC21140 [10-100Mb/s] pass 1.1 ethernet address 08:00:2b:e1:06:07
> 
> to work.
> 

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