From: John P . Looney (valen at domain tuatha.org)
Date: Thu 23 Sep 1999 - 12:52:27 IST
On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 12:40:46PM +0100, David Murphy mentioned:
> > PCI is supposed to be 32bit 33Mhz. That's 133 MB/sec, theoretical
> > max. SBUS (Sun's pre-pci bus) is 25MB/sec, proven.
>
> Really? Proven by what, exactly? Sun quote the SBUS bandwidth at
> 100MB/sec for 32-bit SBUS, 200MB/sec for 64-bit SBUS, theoretical maxima,
> of course.
Ah. That makes me feel better. It was an Sun SSE that told me it was
25MB/sec, and they generally know stuff like that. It's amazing that Sun
had that bus in 1989, when IPXs & stuff were around.
Any idea what sort of machines have 64 SBUS connectors ? Are they
physically the same connector (if not, I've never seen them, though I've
seen MBUS and XBUS connectors...).
> > OK, I know that Sun are shipping machines with 64bit 66Mhz PCI, but
> > the big iron machines aren't going to see that bus for two years or
> > so...
> Actually, you can get a PCI module for your 10000, if you want.
My E10000 ? Now that's a thought. Wonder would security stop you, if you
were in a big truck, and looked serious. Thing only weighes 600 kilos. Disk
cabinets are 800 kilos each though...hmm...
The PCI module just sticks into a system board slot, yeah ? Kinda like an
IO board on the Ex000s ?
Kate
-- Microsoft. The best reason in the world to drink beer.
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