Re: PCI bus speed on OldWorld PCI macs

2002-08-03 Thread Michel Lanners
On 2 Aug, this message from Sloopy Malibu echoed through cyberspace: > Here at home I have a B&W G3-500 (384megs RAM OS X 10.1.5) and a 8500/233 > (604e) ( 896Megs Ram Mac OS 9.1) with a KNE110TX 10/100 enet card... And > when the B&W is hooked to my friends iBook it will blow large files back an

Re: PCI bus speed on OldWorld PCI macs

2002-08-03 Thread Sloopy Malibu
Although I don¹t know actual numbers on the hardware side of things I can give a few bits of real world info on this... Here at home I have a B&W G3-500 (384megs RAM OS X 10.1.5) and a 8500/233 (604e) ( 896Megs Ram Mac OS 9.1) with a KNE110TX 10/100 enet card... And when the B&W is hooked to my f

Re: PCI bus speed on OldWorld PCI macs

2002-08-02 Thread Michel Lanners
On 1 Aug, this message from Michael Hackett echoed through cyberspace: > On Thu, 1 Aug 2002 16:50:41 -0400 (EDT) > "Albert D. Cahalan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Michael Hackett writes: >> > No, because you can't change the PCI clock. >> >> Do you know this specifically for his hardware? R

Re: PCI bus speed on OldWorld PCI macs

2002-08-02 Thread Michel Lanners
On 1 Aug, this message from Chris echoed through cyberspace: > Pardon my ignorance but in a conversation a while ago someone asked this > listserve if upgrading to 100mbs ethernet on an older PCI powermac lab would > be > worth it to improve terminal performance. > > Most people seemed to say '

Re: PCI bus speed on OldWorld PCI macs

2002-08-01 Thread Michael Hackett
On Thu, 1 Aug 2002 16:50:41 -0400 (EDT) "Albert D. Cahalan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Hackett writes: > > No, because you can't change the PCI clock. > > Do you know this specifically for his hardware? Remember that > it is 100% allowed to run PCI at less than 33 MHz, and that > this i

Re: PCI bus speed on OldWorld PCI macs

2002-08-01 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
Michael Hackett writes: > Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 100Mbps Ethernet = approx. 10-12 MB/s. PCI bandwidth is 132 MB/s (or > 80-90 MB/s in practice, I've read here recently). Plenty of headroom. I > doubt such a card would even get much in the way of other PCI traffic. ... > As Ben said, it

Re: PCI bus speed on OldWorld PCI macs

2002-08-01 Thread Michael Hackett
On Thu, 01 Aug 2002 13:50:07 -0500 Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Pardon my ignorance but in a conversation a while ago someone asked > this listserve if upgrading to 100mbs ethernet on an older PCI > powermac lab would be worth it to improve terminal performance. > > Most people seemed to sa

Re: PCI bus speed on OldWorld PCI macs

2002-08-01 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
Chris writes: > Pardon my ignorance but in a conversation a while ago someone asked this > listserve if upgrading to 100mbs ethernet on an older PCI powermac lab would > be > worth it to improve terminal performance. > > Most people seemed to say 'NO' because of the limits of the PCI bus. 100 Mb

Re: PCI bus speed on OldWorld PCI macs

2002-08-01 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
>-what is the speed of the PCI bus on an older powermac? (is is 50% bus >speed?) It should be normal 33Mhz >-If I clocked up my PowerMac 7300/180 (45mhz bus) to 175 to 200 mhz on a >50mhz+ >bus would I be getting a faster PCI bus as well? I don't know if the PCI clock is derived from the bus cl

Re: PCI bus speed on OldWorld PCI macs

2002-08-01 Thread Angela Kahealani
I don't know for the entire product line, but can give one datapoint: A Beige G3 MiniTower is an OldWorld PCI bus PowerMac. 266MHz CPU 133MHz L2 Cache (Backside) 066MHz System Bus (PCI) at 64bits wide -- Copyright 2002 Angela Kahealani. All Rights Reserved Without Prejudice, UCC 1-207. All informa

PCI bus speed on OldWorld PCI macs

2002-08-01 Thread Chris
Greetings Debian Guru's, Pardon my ignorance but in a conversation a while ago someone asked this listserve if upgrading to 100mbs ethernet on an older PCI powermac lab would be worth it to improve terminal performance. Most people seemed to say 'NO' because of the limits of the PCI bus. I know