It looks like what I need is a MB from about 6-7 years ago :-( The curse of a product life cycle of < 1 year
-pete On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Galen Seitz <[email protected]> wrote: > On 03/23/13 09:10, Pete Lancashire wrote: >> Any suggestions for a MB that (still) has more the 4 or 5 PCI connectors ? >> >> Has to be dual bootable, XPSP3+Linux >> >> SATA for at lest 2 disks >> >> Optionally a built in 1 Gbs NIC and Firewire >> >> And a preference for AMD >> >> Other then that does not have to be a screamer, 1 Ghz would be just fine >> >> Use is for one or two PC's for gathering data, NI GPIB, and up to 3 NI >> Data acquisition/output cards. > > > Perhaps you saw this already, but a Newegg search shows a single > motherboard with > 3 PCI slots. It has 5 PCI slots. > ASUS P8B-C/4L > > I doubt you'll find a motherboard with Firewire and many PCI slots. > Firewire is more common on consumer motherboards, while lots of PCI > slots is more of a server motherboard feature. > > Tyan and Supermicro have products with many PCI slots, but they may be > unavailable at this point. > http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/matrix/index.cfm > http://www.tyan.com/tech/product_matrix.aspx > > galen > -- > Galen Seitz > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
