List charter mods & headcount... ;-)

On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Teo Zenios wrote: Most of my cards came from "computer graveyard" type shops that I used to hunt though in years past. I don't remember any video VLB video capture cards, but the ISA type were common, and were usually just connected to the VLB video card in a VLB system (though the Diamond Viper VLB has no expansion connector... supposedly just an oversight during the design phase.) There were some VLB sound cards, but I doubt they really made any use of the VLB bus. I do have some VLB NE2000 based network cards. I've never done any sort of benchmarking on them though, so I have no idea if they are any faster than an ISA NE2000 card. I suspect that they might actually be a little slower, since the drivers are not as well tested. The boards I'm really after are things like the Promise caching EIDE controllers, S3 based and/or Diamond brand video cards (any bus type), some SCSI controllers (I don't think I need any more Adaptec 1740/1742 cards though!), and probably other boards I can't think of right now. I have my fair share of junk ISA cards too (and if anyone needs a particular model of ISA IDE/IO card, I might just have it...) While on the subject of EISA stuff...I finally got my hands on a nice EISA testbed platform not too long ago, but it doesn't have any hard drive mounting sleds. The system is a Dell Poweredge SP5100-2, and it came with 4 Adaptec AHA-2742 in some of the slots. Those are a dual channel bus mastering fast SCSI controller, and are great for my stacks of cdrom changers and such. I added two more AHA-2742 cards, so it technically now has 13 fast SCSI channels (12 add-on, 1 built-in). Anyhow, if anyone has hard drive sleds or the brackets for mounting drives in the bays of that system laying about, contact me off-list. -Toth