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Subject: Re: NetBSD with PCI bus?
Message-ID: <1995Jun21.183958.18327@zippy.dct.ac.uk>
From: amm@tremas.dct.ac.uk (Angus Marshall)
Date: 21 Jun 95 18:39:58 +0100
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kadokev@ripco.com (Kevin Kadow) writes:
> Does anybody have experience with NetBSD using PCI interface cards
> (ethernet,SCSI)? I know the INSTALL file lists an NCR PCI SCSI board as
> supported.
>
> This is for a Usenet News server...
>
> I'm currently running on an EISA DX50 motherboard with an Adaptec 1742
> EISA SCSI card and a SMC Elite ISA ethernet card. If I want to upgrade
> to a pentium motherboard, the only affordable boards are ISA/PCI, which
> means I'd have to switch to PCI since it can't handle my existing controller.
>
> Has anybody tried this? How does PCI compare to EISA?
It took us 3 months to get a working PCI system. We had MAJOR problems with
the motherboard. BEWARE, not every manufacturer's PCI implementation is
compatible. OTOH, when it works it seems to give pretty good performance.
Our DX4/100 with PCI/SCSI2 is running fast enough at the moment. (Though
something keeps causing it to slow to a standstill periodically)
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