Hello from Gregg C Levine usually with Jedi Knight Computers
As most of you know, I tried working with NetBSD, both versions 1.4, and 1.4.2
before temporarily shelving the project. The machine that I used for this Great
Experiment, wore a motherboard made by Tyan, www.tyn.com , it used the 430FX
chipset, the name of the board is Titan 3, and wore both style slots. The video
card happened to be the PCI version of a card that used the Trident chipset. I
found for NetBSD, that it worked very effectively doing almost anything. The
reason why the project was shelved, is that the harddrive I used was starting
to deteriorate, and I did not want to loose out on anything. Besides it was not
big enough to do anything worth while with the OS. This machine being used for
writing this message, is indeed a PCI only machine, and he is made by Dell. Oh,
and his name is Doctor Who.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: port-i386-owner@netbsd.org [mailto:port-i386-owner@netbsd.org]On
> Behalf Of Thomas Michael Wanka
> Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2000 11:59 AM
> To: port-i386@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: PCI only machine?
>
>
> Hi,
>
> do you mean machines that have PCI and ISA but only PCI cards
> used (most office PCs I use to work with are that), or ones that have
> no PCI slots (have some around) or ones that have no ISA at all
> (found on some hardware that uses passive/semipassive backplanes
> on ACTI or PC98 compliant hardware), assuming that some generic
> hardware is still realised as ISA devices from what I found (COM
> and LPT and keyboard controllers seem to be ISA devices in some
> machines)?
>
> mike
>
> On 20 Oct 2000, at 22:08, dribbling@thekeyboard.com wrote:
>
> > Hello!
> >
> > Results of my early experiments with NetBSD/i386 seem to
> > suggest that I should either find a machine that pre-dates
> > plug-n-play, or build one that has only a PCI bus. I would
> > welcome people's thoughts about this observation.  Do any
> > of you run PCI-only machines?
> >
> > Regards,
> >   - Andy.
> >
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