do i have a question on hardware for chris? you bet.

i noticed the msi dual socket mobo has a pci arbitor chip.. funky. why dont more motherboards have them? considering how many pci cards dont 'play nice'?

nice examples, 3com NIC's (especially the 905/a/b/c babies), sb lives.

ooooh those sblives... i hate installing those with a passion.

do you think, now with the push to 6 pci slots that we will see more pci arbitor chips on mobo's? and especially with lots of integration with, 6 pci, all those ide channels, usb, etc

i think, in future, i wont buy a mobo without it. even if all 6 pci slots are bus mastering capable.

whats your take on all this? (hmm and why not daisy chain another irq chip... we daisy chain 2 now.. you'd think they could just add another... since spec is capable of it....)


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Stuart 'Dark Fiber' George [ FreeBSD 4.1 / BeOS 4.5.2 / Win2K ]
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