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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!psinntp!psinntp!dscope!jld
- From: jld@datascope.com (Jay L. Davis)
- Subject: Re: ISA cards in an EISA bus
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.221353.5441@datascope.com>
- Organization: Datascope Corp.
- References: <1992Aug31.201502.14568@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <1992Sep3.190409.17253@microware.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 22:13:53 GMT
- Lines: 30
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- In article <1992Sep3.190409.17253@microware.com> adam@microware.com (Adam Goldberg) writes:
- >dab@ubitrex.mb.ca (Daniel Boulet) writes:
- >
- >>I'm about to purchase an EISA bus system. I've heard that there are some
- >>problems that one can encounter if ISA cards are used in an EISA system.
- >
- >>What sort of problems could I run into? I'm definitely intending to purchase
- >>an EISA disk controller. I was planning on getting ISA cards for the rest
- >>(video, serial ports, floppies).
- >
- >Here's the rub: (Someone correct me if I'm wrong...)
- >
- >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.
- >
- >The solution is to buy a EISA machine that has floppy & parallel &
- >serial ports on the MB (or on an EISA card).
- >
- >Can someone in the know confirm/deny this?
- >
-
- I don't think EISA is 16MHZ. If I remember right, the standards are as follows:
-
- ISA: 8 mhz
- EISA: 10 mhz
- Micro-channel: 12 mhz
-
- ---Jay Davis
-