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From: idallen@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Ian! D. Allen [CGL])
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Can I usurp the grant card behind a KDA50 on a DS5400?
Message-ID: <1990Oct26.062017.19474@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Date: 26 Oct 90 06:20:17 GMT
Sender: idallen@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Ian! D. Allen [CGL])
Organization: Computer Graphics Laboratory, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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The add-on KDA50 controller for a DS5400 occupies three Qbus slots,
because it needs three slot-widths for the four SDI disk cable sockets.
Only two Qbus slots are needed for the controller; the third slot 
contains a standard bus grant card.  Can I pull the grant card and
put in a real Qbus option, such as a serial card?  The TK70 controller
also seems to take only half the Qbus slot; the other half of the slot
has a card with nothing much on it.  Can I use that half slot too?
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-IAN! (Ian! D. Allen) idallen@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca idallen@watcgl.waterloo.edu
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