Re: PCIX confusion

[David Rhodus <sdrhodus@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 01:23:07 +0800, Bill Hacker <wbh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Boris Spirialitious wrote:
> 
> *SNIP*
> 
> >>Not many
> >>      people have PCI-X in their systems.
> >
> >
> > I am very confused by this statement. Are you
> > part of dragonfybsd team? PCIX is just faster
> > spec for PCI. What is not accepted about it?
> > Is DDR also not accepted? This is very disturbing.
> > It seem like you have no idea what is going
> > on in the world. It is very strange.
> >
> > Boris
> >
> 
> Not to worry, Boris!
> 
> PCI-X is pretty standard in rackmount servers.
> (running it in IBM e-Series as we speak.)
> 
> As you hint, it needs nothing not already in the *BSD's.
> DragonFly can be expected to handle it well.
> 
> The 'discussion' is the residue of a 'hardware'
> troll-flare, has gone way O/T,
> .. and will (hopefully) die out if we just let it..
> 
> Pax,
> 
> Bill
> 

I have several AMD64 machines with PCI-X all running DragonFly
perfectly.  But honestly now when buying machines I will pass on a
board with PCI-X as its being replaced by PCI-E.

-- 
                                            -David
                                            Steven David Rhodus
                                            <drhodus@xxxxxxxxxxx>