[geeks] 3COM 3C796 FDDI Link == DEC DEFPA ????

[Dave McGuire]

On July 3, Jochen Kunz wrote:
> >   Yup, 3Com did the OEM game with them.  I've used them
> > interchangeably; I don't recall having had any problems.
> You mean even the PCI IDs are identical? Tru64 and OpenVMS will eat this
> cards?

  As far as I recall, yes, though it's been a while since I've seen one.

> fsck. I don't wane know how many auctions I already missed. (I realy
> need a buch of DEFPAs and DEFTAs for my upcoming cluster games...
> Thinking of a dedicated ring for cluster interconnect... Yes I am
> insane. Hehehe. ;-)  ) 

  8-)

  Be aware, though, that there are plenty of 3Com PCI FDDI cards that
are NOT DEFPAs.  I believe this is the only one.

     -Dave

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