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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Received on Sat Oct 27 2001 - 18:07:30 BST