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- From: thompson@PAN.SSEC.HONEYWELL.COM ((jt) John Thompson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
- Subject: 425t EISA bus
- Message-ID: <199207291422.AA15645@pan.ssec.honeywell.com>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 14:22:08 GMT
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- Hi all --
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- The 4xxT series nodes were marketed to have no EISA expansion capabilities.
- However, they obviously have an EISA bus, since they can take an ATR or ITR
- card. This leads me to ask two questions --
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- 1) Can you throw in a different card (for example, an ExaTape card or an Ikon
- 10092 card), and have it work? I think I remember that HP _said_ "no,"
- but that's different than not being able to. You couldn't put a color
- head on a 705 by changing a jumper and buying a new cable either. :-)
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- 2) There are now expanders out for the 700 series that convert a single EISA
- slot to a 7-slot(?) EISA bus, via (I believe) a card w/ extender cable,
- and an expansion box (presumably w/ its own power).
- Can one of these be put in a 4xxT machine (or a 4xxS machine, for that
- matter), to expand its capabilities? Perhaps this answer is affected by
- the same constraints that answered (1), but perhaps not.
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- Enquiring Minds Want To Know --
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-
- -- jt --
- John Thompson
- Design Services Engineer / Sys-Admin
- Honeywell, SSEC
- Plymouth, MN 55441
- thompson@pan.ssec.honeywell.com
-
- What do I know? I'm just a Token Administrator.
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