thanks for the info on the EISA bus. I didn't recall the throuhgput of that channel.
speaking nostalgia, I had an old 486 mb with ISA/EISA that board was awesome. I used it for a while as a desktop (hand me down style) and worked flawlessly. The best part was that I went from that old 486 to a p2/266. skipped the complete pentium/ppro series. although having a ppro would have been nice. ahh.. memory lane :) joey -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 11:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Michael Bacon Subject: RE: [leaf-user] Advice on 100Mpbs ISA network cards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/24/2003 12:59:58 PM: > I'm not to sure about the EISA interface. I know there is some speed > improvement, but I'm too sure about the number of supported network cards. > Or even finding EISA network cards at this point. I think I might have one > or two from a system pull a few years back. I'll dig through my loot > tonight and see if I can find anything. EISA is a 32-bit bus with a maximum throughput of 33MB/s. That's plenty for 100Mbit. I have a pair of 3Com EISA 579's that are 100Mbit. They worked fine in my IBM PC Server 320's for years, and they were capable of transferring 100Mbit of data on Pentium 133's running OS/2. Ah, the days... > Thanks for the info. Actually, it's a 486 w/ pci slots, but not enough to > do the job - so I'm pretty certain it's EISA. But I didn't think about that > until I had already sent the e-mail... There were a *lot* of 486 PCI motherboards and only a *very* few that were 486 PCI and EISA. Servers, yes. Average motherboards, no. You should be able to look at the slot and tell if it's EISA. It'll be taller than an ISA slot (by about 1/4 an inch or so), and you should see the second row of copper fingers below the top one. Odds are, it does *not* support EISA. Tim Massey ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
