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Re: Large Motherboard.
- To: Mailing List Recipients <pci-sig-request@znyx.com>
- Subject: Re: Large Motherboard.
- From: richardm@cd.com (Richard Masoner)
- Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 10:53:17 -0500 (CDT)
- In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9609121706.A2518-0100000@mrt> from "John M. Keefe, Jr." at Sep 12, 96 05:58:11 pm
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> We have a PCI expansion box available that provides seven expansion slots
> (six of them bus mastering) that a few of our customers are using for this
We have this MAGMA expansion box John Keefe mentioned. Works
flawlessly.
> Your test host needs to have a BIOS that supports
> bridges and your device driver needs to "do the right thing" wrt bridges
> (and if both are V2.0 or V2.1 compliant that's almost a sure thing).
We went through several PC's and calls to various vendors tech support
and receiving patches before we found a BIOS that supported bridges.
This was EARLY this year so things might have changed in the meantime.
Richard Masoner
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