[rescue] Any Minneapolis area listers ?

[Ethan O'Toole]

> Finding a current MB with 4 PCI slots is challenging (NOT impossible,
> but your choices are very limited)... Also, what is the difference
> between one 12 port card on a PCI bus vs. three 4 port cards on a PCI
> bus (aside from simple hardware redundancy, where you you now have three
> point s of failure instead of one, but hopefully one-third the impact
> when one of the three fails)?
> Lionel

Server boards have multiple busses, and you could get cards of different
types.

Oh yea:
http://users.757.org/~ethan/pics/geek/computer_stuff/soundcard_champion/
19 pci slots, 5 busses, 1 box. Booya.