Also there were select systems that may have been VIA but they were hand
picked boards.
Anyways, Jeff will need to comment on this part. However I know he has
shipped with 4 and maybe even 5 cards in a box that ran fine and stable.
Cheers,
On 5 Sep 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 20:48, Andre Hedrick wrote:
> > 5 have been done!
> >
> > Ask "Jeff Nguyen", all it means is that only two cards will be setup by
> > their BIOS. The remaining cards will be setup by the driver.
> > IIRC, there was a special RIO version with 8 card or 32 drives.
>
> I wouldnt like to see the performance of the resulting box or try it on
> a VIA chipset or anything else I didn't trust 100% to handle contention
> on the PCI bus
>
Andre Hedrick
LAD Storage Consulting Group
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