[rescue] Dec PCI cards

[Patrick Finnegan]

On Tuesday 12 October 2004 01:19, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 12:25:26AM -0500, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> > On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> > >They're full-length 32-bit PCI cards, with Lattice chips on them,
> > > a red AMP connector at the inner end that looks to be 30 pins or
> > > so (I didn't count), and an external connector that looks exactly
> > > like a 68-pin SCSI high-density connector except that, if I
> > > counted correctly, it has an even hundred pins.
> > >
> > >Can anyone enlighten me as to what this might be?  I've never
> > > heard of anything with a 100-pin connector before.  (Damn thing's
> > > about three inches wide.)
> >
> > Those sound like old Myrinet cards.
>
> Good call, I hadn't thought of that.  And having never seen one,
> wouldn't recognize it if I saw it.  Myrinet use{s,d} a 100-pin
> connector?

Hrm, the old Myranet stuff I've got uses DC37 connectors, and from what 
I've been told/seen, that's the only connector they used before 
switching to fiber.

Pat
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