[Sunhelp] SunPCI & PCI acquisition card

Bill Bradford mrbill at mrbill.net
Tue Oct 3 02:56:31 CDT 2000


On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 08:49:38AM +0100, paul.jaques at gb.abb.com wrote:
> Dear All
> Has anybody had experience (good or bad) in trying to use a third party PCI
> card in an Ultra 5 with SunPCI card. I have a problem in that the SunPCI
> does not seem to recognise the PCI card present on the bus.
> Paul Jaques
> Systems Engineer

This is correct - you cannot use other 3rd-party PCI cards on the 
Sun's PCI bus along with the SunPCi card.  It only recognizes itself.

Only way to fix this is to actually build/buy a separate PC machine with
its own PCI bus.

Bill

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Bill Bradford * KD5LQR
  mrbill at mrbill.net
    Austin, TX





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