Alphastation 200 (and others) PCI-PCI bridge fix

Bernd Walter ticso at cicely12.cicely.de
Mon Jun 28 06:05:25 PDT 2004


On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 02:54:39PM +0200, Michael Kukat wrote:
> On Monday 28 June 2004 14:48, you wrote:
> > The pci slots on a PC164 are all on the same bus, so I doubt that it'll
> > make a big difference.
> 
> Hm. isn't there something in the specs, that a 64bit bus will be degraded to 
> 32bit, if there are 32bit cards present? So this 64bit stuff would not be too 
> useful in this box...

No - the bus would only be degraded on 66MHz vs. 33MHz and the PC164
ist 33MHz anyway (as long as you setup the clock divisor correctly).

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