[SunRescue] Creator 2D/PCI card in Ultra 5?

[nick at ns.snowman.net]

Errr......... err...........  What are you smoking and where can I get
some?  There are devices that use 66mhz 64bit pci which is very close to
what agp is.  However AGP is only for gfx cards, because it is a port.
You cannot (with current chipsets) have more than one agp port, and that
is not likley to change (since you can have up to ~5 master 64bit 66mhz
pci slots).  There is no advantage to building a agp card instead of a
64/66 pci card, unless you need the special hacks for gfx.  Asus may have
considered building a scsi card or something, but I doubt it.  As too
AGP "chewing up system resources"  I'm fairly confident that you're
getting "Trying to emulate a 20K SGI" confused with "chewing up system
resources".  Unless you are running agp enhanced cards (which are UMA and
Evil!) then it's just a pci card with a really really really fast bus and
a quicker path to memory.  I'd explain some more but i've got to work
<grin>
	Nick

On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Chris Drelich wrote:

> I personally haven't seen them, but I know they exist, if I find a URL, Ill
> point it out.  This whole conversation actually came up just a few days ago at
> work.  We were looking to buy a few new servers to do some RAID stuff.  One of
> the servers that was offered came with an AGP RAID card.  Well, needless to
> say, we didn't get it(we went for the system with the Mylex RAID), but yes, it
> does exist, and if I find out more info Ill let you know.
> Chris
> 
> David Murphy wrote:
> > 
> > Quoting <38D77A0C.FCD3DE13 at interport.net>
> > by Chris Drelich <hyena at interport.net>:
> > 
> > > Errr. Well, maybe I didn't explain well. There ARE things that go
> > > into an AGP slots besides Graphics cards. You don't want this. You
> > > don't want your RAID or Network or SCSI card depending on AGP.
> > 
> > Um, have you actually ever seen anything other than a graphics card
> > that uses an AGP slot? I can't say that I have, but if you could
> > perhaps point me at a URL describing such a product?
> > 
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> > David Murphy - For PGP public key, send mail with Subject: send-pgp-key
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