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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!torn!nott!bnrgate!bnr.co.uk!uknet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!Informatik.Uni-Dortmund.DE!Chemietechnik.Uni-Dortmund.DE!plato!sn From: sn@plato.chemietechnik.uni-dortmund.de (sn) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Vesa Local Bus 50 MHz IDE controller / 386bsd? Date: 18 May 1993 19:15:28 GMT Organization: Universitaet Dortmund, CT, Germany Lines: 23 Message-ID: <1tbckgINN7vi@unidoct.Chemietechnik.Uni-Dortmund.DE> References: <1stqsdINNk3v@unidoct.Chemietechnik.Uni-Dortmund.DE> <C75L96.B7B@csi.compuserve.com> <C78BBt.2yrr@austin.ibm.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plato.chemietechnik.uni-dortmund.de guyd@austin.ibm.com (Guy Dawson) writes: >> My advice is: don't. The VL local bus is only "officially" >> rated at 33MHz and a variety of interesting things begin to happen when >> you run cards on it at 50. It tends to overheat the CPU and the failure >> rate of the cards is pretty substantial. I would advise that you either >> wait to see what happens with the Intel local bus (I know, I know, but >> the word is that it is really a decent product) or get a 33MHz board >> instead. >There is also a VESA spec for slots at 40Mhz - same pinouts etc, just a >faster clock. I don't remember if it allows for 1 ( probably ) or 2 slots. >Guy At 40 Mhz, the VLB only allows one slot. Anyways, I've had some people mail me with 50 MHz boards and they were having no problems. I don't know if NOBODY has problems, but it looks like it can be done. You just have to be lucky and get a motherboard and cards that handle the 50 MHz. -Sven