Multiple Board Installation - Matrox Meteor-II /Standard Installation And Hardware Reference

30 Chapter 3: Using multiple Matrox Meteor-II boards

Multiple board installation

This section describes how to use multiple Matrox Meteor-II boards.
Install each additional Matrox Meteor-II board, PCI and CompactPCI form
Installing multiple
PCI and CompactPCI
factors, as you installed the first board (refer to Chapter 2). In other words, place
boards
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/CompactPCI
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
Installing multiple
you are using. If using a Matrox 4Sight-II integrated unit, you can stack a
PC/104-Plus boards
maximum of three PC/104-Plus boards, as shown in the diagram below. Note that
if you have PC/104 boards in your computer, they must be placed at the top of
the stack.
PCI connector
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Top screw
Host board
ISA connectors