Top Document: SGI hardware Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Previous Document: -56- How fast is the Indigo parallel port? Next Document: -58- What high speed interfaces are available for Onyx? See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge Date: 09 Jun 1993 00:00:01 EST Jamie Riotto <jamie@origami.esd.sgi.com> writes: An Indigo R4000 has two daughter board expansions which use our GIO-32BIS bus design. These cards are about the size of an index card. An Indigo2 has a 4-slot backplane design. All four slots have EISA connectors so you can have a graphics-less server with four EISA cards. Three of the slots have GIO-64 bus connectors, BUT ONLY TWO CONNECTORS CAN BE USED SIMULTANEOUSLY!. Graphics board sets take up one logical GIO-64 connection, but can take up more physical slots. The current Extreme graphics takes up one logical GIO-64 connection, but uses three slots. That means the other slot can be used for either EISA or GIO-64 expansion. Note that since not all slots have both EISA and GIO-64 connectors, you might have to shift the Extreme graphics board set up or down a slot if you want to use the fourth slot with GIO-64 expansion. GIO-64 by the way is similar to GIO-32 but is twice as wide, uses a different DMA protocol (pipelined), and used EISA form factor (with the connector moved of course :-). User Contributions:Top Document: SGI hardware Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Previous Document: -56- How fast is the Indigo parallel port? Next Document: -58- What high speed interfaces are available for Onyx? Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: sgi-faq@viz.tamu.edu (The SGI FAQ group)
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