On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Peter Stuge wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 09:53:15AM -0700, Ronald G. Minnich wrote: > > On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Peter Stuge wrote: > > > > > Ouch! Does anyone know what the problem is? > > > > No > > > > > Also, do you recall which models any of those mainboards were? > > > > every model I've had with a 3V pci bus. > > Aha, a 5V PCI card will likely cause problems if plugged into a 3V > bus, although that's not supposed to be possible thanks to the > differently keyed connectors. yeah, but even a plan ol' pci 32 bits slot @ 33 mhz on the supermicro boards we have won't tolerate a post card. I haven't look enough to know what's up here. Serial POST was my fix -- I like that better anyway. > To be at least a little future proof (who knows how long PCI will live) > I fully intend to make it a real Universal board that works equally well > in 5V and 3V systems, without any configuration required. This is > possible within the PCI specification. good plan. > Any particular reason to specifically choose a BASIC Stamp rather > than e.g. a PIC? PIC is fine. Something you can program would be cool > Has all email to/from the list been coming through correctly the > last 12 hours? I'm not sure if I got some duplicates and delayed > messages? things seem ok here. ron _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
