27 Oct
2001
27 Oct
'01
11:07 a.m.
Richard Erlacher skrev:
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.
A friend of mine has got an ISA 100Mb ethernet card made by HP. I'm quite
jealous. OTOH, I've got an Olicom 100Mb MCA ethernet card. ^___^
BTW, what about EISA? When the Pentium was really new, and PCI really wasn't
on the market, or at least not a force to be reckoned with due to lack of
hardware, all high-end Pentium machines had EISA, often in addition to PCI.
And there certainly is a big amount of high-end SCSI cards for EISA, and they
still fetch quite a good price. The number of 100Mb ethernet EISA cards is not
negligible either.
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