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- From: ti@bazooka.amb.org (Ti Kan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: ISA cards in an EISA bus
- Message-ID: <1080@bazooka.amb.org>
- Date: 5 Sep 92 05:45:16 GMT
- References: <1992Aug31.201502.14568@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <1992Sep3.190409.17253@microware.com> <1992Sep4.231928.7930@news.columbia.edu>
- Reply-To: ti@bazooka.UUCP (Ti Kan)
- Organization: AMB Research Labs, Sunnyvale, CA.
- Lines: 30
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- In article <1992Sep4.231928.7930@news.columbia.edu> mkg4@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Michael K Gavin) writes:
- >In article <1992Sep3.190409.17253@microware.com> adam@microware.com (Adam Goldberg) writes:
- >>dab@ubitrex.mb.ca (Daniel Boulet) writes:
- >>An EISA bus runs at 16MHz, but an ISA bus runs (usually) at 8 or 10 MHz.
- >>When you plug an ISA card into an EISA bus, the EISA bus sees the ISA
- >>card and lowers it's speed to 8MHz. Thereby decreasing throughput
- >>because of the lower clock speed.
- >
- >Does this mean that if I have an ISA modem in my computer (and it would be kind
- >of pointless to get an EISA modem, if they even exist) that my EISA SCSI
- >controller starts working at half speed?!?!?!?!? If so, then I feel pretty
- >stupid having gone ahead and paid for EISA....
-
- NO! An ISA card on the EISA bus does NOT slow down the system. EISA bus
- contains many extra pins that EISA boards will come in contact with,
- amongst which are the connections that makes EISA true 32-bit, as well as
- higher speed clock signals. ISA cards, when inserted in an EISA slot,
- will come in contact only with the "compatibility pins" and will be clocked
- at 8MHz just as it would on an ISA bus. Just think, what's the point of
- an EISA system if the presence of an ISA video card would slow down the
- system! You wouldn't think that the designers were not that naive,
- would you?
-
- -Ti
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