From: Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Actually, you'd be insane to put a MCA card in a server (you'd have to get >it second hand and so on). They generally slow down the machine because of >the limits they place on the ISA bus and require special mca screens!
When you're only running at 30-40 MHz anyway, how much could the video card slow down the ISA bus?... :-) Also, the MCA monitors aren't "special," just incompatible with the (now) much more common CGA and VGA cards. >I wonder if you can probe the kernel to find out if it is using a MCA >card, it actually does know (diff memory address).. If someone wants to try out some software on my system, let me know. I can easily upgrade its kernel to 2.0.33. Bear Giles [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
