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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!library.ucla.edu!news.mic.ucla.edu!unixg.ubc.ca!kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca!alberta!nebulus!dennis From: dennis@nebulus.ampr.ab.ca (Dennis S. Breckenridge) Subject: Re: EISA experiences? References: <21f1t9$r3c@pandora.sdsu.edu> <2490@hcshh.hcs.de> Organization: "Alchemy Mindworks" Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1993 16:18:46 GMT Message-ID: <CA42nB.6wD@nebulus.ampr.ab.ca> Lines: 26 hm@hcshh.hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis) writes: >In <21f1t9$r3c@pandora.sdsu.edu> mrh@io.nosc.mil (Mike Halderman) writes: >>How many people are using EISA systems for 386bsd? Is the EISA worth the >>extra expense when buying a new system? Any proplems to watch out for? I have upgraded from ISA to EISA c/w the adaptec 1542B to 1742A controller and 3C509 to 3C3nn (I cannot remember the number). Both system cards run DX2/66 486 CPU's and 16 MB of memory. I then benchmarked both systems using the BYTE UNIX benchmark. Much to my dismay the EISA mother board was no faster than the ISA mother board. I have a complete cross reference from the benchmarks if anyone is interested I will email them. For the dollars I had to spend on replacing the MB/SCSI/ENET boards it was not worth it. I upgraded the EISA board to 32mb and noticed a small increase in disk I/O. BTW the ISA board is a ISA/3VLB (no name clone) and the EISA is ECS/VLB. This is one time I should have listened to the salesperson, but I have never listened to them in the past. Sigh :-( -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dennis Breckenridge All software projects are done by iterative prototyping. dennis@nebulus.ampr.ab.ca Some companies call their prototypes "releases". -------------------------------------------------------------------------------