On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 09:24:03AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >Hmm interesting, so someone took the VGA thing and made a storage device > >for it. Did that ever happen with AGP? Any AGP scsi cards. I guess I can > >Google for it. > > A lot less likely, IMO. Unlike AGP-PCI, VLB slots were compatible with > ISA cards, and the electricals were less complex, so several motherboard > manufacturers built boards with 3 or more VESA slots (I think I saw a > board with 6 at one point.) > > AGP electricals pretty much require that it be point to point. ... not that VLB didn't suck badly with several devices attached at the same time. I would be rather surprised if that board would work if fully populated with VLB cards, all in active use. IOW, a likely explanation is that it had a warning along the lines of "use of more than <number> of VLB cards at the same time may use instability" buried in documentation and proud "6 VLB slots!!!" touted by marketing... I can't find VLB specs online, but IIRC 3 had been the limit and anything past that had been very much out of spec and likely to screw you. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
