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- From: carl@Cayman.COM (Carl Heinzl)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
- Subject: Re: 425t EISA bus
- Message-ID: <CARL.92Jul29162805@atlantis.Cayman.COM>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 20:28:05 GMT
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- In-reply-to: thompson@PAN.SSEC.HONEYWELL.COM's message of 29 Jul 92 14:22:08 GMT
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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 --
-
- Sorry, but they don't have an EISA bus at all. The ATR/ITR/Ethernet
- cards are *ISA* cards (aka AT bus style cards). The "bus" in the 425t
- is NOT a full ISA bus like the Dn3000/3500/4000/4500/5000 or 425s but
- it is a crippled bus. It does not support dma. I forget if there
- are other limitations.
-
- >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. :-)
-
- The short answer is no for the reasons mentioned above.
-
- >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.
-
- Different animule altogether. That's a *real* EISA bus as opposed to
- a crippled ISA bus.
-
- -Carl-
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