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Upgrades and Options

Option Boards

This section describes how to install and remove
EISA/ISA and PCI option boards. The system board has
four dedicated EISA/ISA bus master expansion slots
and six dedicated PCI bus master expansion slots (see
Figure 5-11).

The high-performance PCI local bus allows the
adoption of newer networking technology, such as ATM
and 100 MB/second Ethernet NICs, with a minimum of
effort and without concern for I/O bottlenecks. The PCI
local bus offers up to 133 MB/second bandwidth.

This combination of PCI and EISA expansion offers
continuing support for existing special function EISA
add-in boards, such as X.25 Multiport Serial cards.

Figure 5-11. PCI and EISA Slot Locations

P02 EISA #2

P05 PCI #00

P03 EISA #3

P01 EISA #1

P04 EISA #4

P07 PCI #10

P06 PCI #01

P08 PCI #11

P09 PCI #12

P10 PCI #13

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A

B

C

Option board
connectors on
system board

A System board

B Connectors for

PCI option
boards

C Connectors for

EISA option
boards

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