VLB SCSI?

From: gwynp_at_artware.qc.ca <(gwynp_at_artware.qc.ca)>
Date: Sat Oct 27 15:19:32 2001

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
Received on Sat Oct 27 2001 - 15:19:32 BST