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