Many thanks to Curt and others who pointed out that I was looking at the
PCI daughercard rather than the PCI slot which will hold a half height
PCI eithernet card as long as I don't have a 3.5" scsi drive in that
place.  It really amazes me how much stuff they packed in this small case. 

This is great news! johnh...

On Tue, 31 Dec 1996, Curt Sampson wrote:

> On Tue, 31 Dec 1996, John C. Hayward wrote:
> 
> >    It seems that the Multia has one PCI slot but it is taken up with the
> > NCR SCSI card (at least that is what I think) and the arangement is such
> > that a regular PCI card would not fit in the case.
> 
> That is not the case. There is a PCI slot on the motherboard that
> will not fit a PCI card (unless you leave the case open). Into this
> goes a `daughtercard' which contains an NCR controller, and another
> (sideways) PCI slot. Into this PCI slot you can fit a `short' PCI
> card.  (PCI cards come in two lengths; `short' and `long'; it's
> pretty easy to tell the difference. Most cards are short.)
> 
> This, by the way, assumes that you have a 300 or 500 MB drive in
> your Multia. Those were 2.5" drives that fit under the floppy drive;
> the multias with 1GB drives have a 3.5" drive that fits where the
> PCI card would otherwise go.
> 
> If you are running NetBSD-current, you can put a 3c59x/3c90x card
> in the PCI slot and it will just work. (I'm doing this now with a
> 905.) If you have any problems with getting one working, let me
> know.
> 
> Other cards may or may not work; I had to add some alignment code
> to the 3c509 driver that is probably not present in the other
> drivers.
> 
> cjs
> 
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