On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Douglas Meade wrote:

> The M7164 and M7165 should be installed at the end of the Qbus.  Also,
> beware that their power consumption is high, so you may want to limit
> the set of cards in there to the bare minimum, as I've heard of some
> variants of the BA23 power supply giving up under this load (I've got
> a pair in a BA23 working fine though, with RA73's on the same power
> box.) 

Should and should... They work fine from anywhere. You might get into a
performance problem which can be alleviated by placing them late, since
they have pretty good buffering (unlike some other controllers).

Hmmm, don't the KDA50 have a switch to make it hog the buss less, like the
UDA-50?

	Johnny

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