Multiple Board Installation - Matrox Meteor-II Installation And Hardware Reference Manual

26 Chapter 3: Using multiple Matrox Meteor-II boards
Installing multiple
PCI boards
Installing multiple
PC/104-Plus boards
Top screw
PCI connector
Host board

Multiple board installation

This section describes how to use multiple Matrox Meteor-II boards.
Install each additional Matrox Meteor-II board for PCI as you installed the first
board (refer to Chapter 2). In other words, place each additional board in an empty
slot. For the PCI form factor, ensure that the installed boards avoid the CPU heat
sink.
Theoretically, you can have as many as 16 Matrox Meteor-II PCI boards installed
in your computer at one time; this number is, however, limited by the number of
empty slots in your computer and, for simultaneous grabs, by the available
bandwidth of your computer (discussed later in this chapter).
Using MIL-Lite, you have to allocate a MIL system for each board and allocate
the resources of each MIL system.
The number of PC/104-Plus boards that you can stack depends on the computer
you are using. If using a Matrox 4Sight-II integrated unit, you can stack a
maximum of three PC/104-Plus boards, as shown in the following diagram. Note
that if you have PC/104 boards in your computer, they must be placed at the top
of the stack.
ISA connectors