Dear Curt,
   My multima is back from the shop and I picked up a 3com card
3c900-combo.

   In looking at my Multia I have I still am a little confused about how
to put in the ethernet card.  I have a Mator 329MB hard drive.  Based on
the information I thought I'd be able to plug it in.

However the drive appears to be mounted behind the floppy drive, not under
it.  It also appears that the NCR controller plugs directly into the one
PCI slot and I cannot see any other PCI socket on the daughter card. 

   It looks like I need a different daughter card and will need to move
my hard drive to use the 3com card.

   Any information on how to get this altenative arrangement would be
appreciated.


On Tue, 31 Dec 1996, Curt Sampson wrote:


> On Tue, 31 Dec 1996, John C. Hayward wrote:
> 
> >    It seems that the Multia has one PCI slot but it is taken up with the
> > NCR SCSI card (at least that is what I think) and the arangement is such
> > that a regular PCI card would not fit in the case.
> 
> That is not the case. There is a PCI slot on the motherboard that
> will not fit a PCI card (unless you leave the case open). Into this
> goes a `daughtercard' which contains an NCR controller, and another
> (sideways) PCI slot. Into this PCI slot you can fit a `short' PCI
> card.  (PCI cards come in two lengths; `short' and `long'; it's
> pretty easy to tell the difference. Most cards are short.)
> 
> This, by the way, assumes that you have a 300 or 500 MB drive in
> your Multia. Those were 2.5" drives that fit under the floppy drive;
> the multias with 1GB drives have a 3.5" drive that fits where the
> PCI card would otherwise go.
> 
> If you are running NetBSD-current, you can put a 3c59x/3c90x card
> in the PCI slot and it will just work. (I'm doing this now with a
> 905.) If you have any problems with getting one working, let me
> know.
> 
> Other cards may or may not work; I had to add some alignment code
> to the 3c509 driver that is probably not present in the other
> drivers.
> 
> cjs
> 
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