27 Oct
2001
27 Oct
'01
8:19 a.m.
On 27-Oct-2001 Richard Erlacher wrote:
The combination of VLB and PCI apparently is the only
way you can use
fast ethernet together with solid, reliable, proven SCSI. ISA doesn't
support fast ethernet, and from what I've seen, neither does VLB,
though those 2842's are hard to beat. The 2940's surely don't do the
job. I've still got about 75 of them out there that I visit from time
to time, and their owners are, in nearly all cases loath to part with
them. They give little or no trouble, all but half a dozen or so are
running Win95 or 98 with few complaints. That one particular board
seems to have had the formula.
I've been using Adaptec PCI SCSI boards for several years now w/o a
hitch...
# lspci | grep SCSI
00:0d.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AHA-2940U2/W
Anyway, I was digging around for a VGA card that this Micron motherboard
won't reject and found the old ISA/VLB/PCI motherboard. It was a PCI54PV.
Finding it brings back all kinds of memories, mostly of the pain of using
it. It taught me to never allow a computer store choose your motherboard.
-Philip