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35 .Nd SGI's Graphics I/O (GIO) bus (an early PCI-like bus)
42 bus is a bus for connecting high-speed peripherals to the main memory and
44 The devices themselves are typically (but not necessarily) connected to the
46 peripheral controller, and memory and CPU are accessed through the
48 (Indy Memory Controller) or
50 (Processor Interface Controller).
53 bus is found on the Personal Iris 4D/3x, Indigo, Indy, Challenge S,
54 Challenge M, and Indigo2 machines and exists in three incarnations:
55 GIO32, GIO32-bis, and GIO64.
67 driver first appeared in
70 Challenge S systems may use only one
72 DMA-capable expansion card, despite having two slots.
75 controller, such as the GIO32 scsi and E++ Ethernet adapters, must be
76 placed in slot 1 (closest to the side of the case).
77 All other cards must be placed in slot 0 (adjacent to the memory banks).
79 Indigo2 and Challenge M systems contain either three or four GIO64 connectors,
80 depending on the model.
81 However, in both cases only two electrically
82 distinct slots are present.
83 Therefore, distinct expansion cards may not
84 share physical connectors associated with the same slot.
86 stencils to determine the association between physical connectors and slots.
90 may experience spurious SysAD bus parity errors when using expansion cards,
91 which do not drive all data lines during a CPU PIO read.
92 The only workaround is to disable SysAD parity checking when using such