We have what will be a cluster that we want to connect to ATM but with a direct fast ethernet connection to a Sun using a QFE card. When the time came to install the ATM cards we noticed that there was a problem with the allocation of slots. If we follow netapp's recommendation then we don't have room for 2 ATM cards and a QFE card as the last FC-AL card is inserted in a 32 bit card slot. We would prefer to use the 3 32 bit slots for QFE and ATM and use one of the slots reserved for Giga bit ethernet for the last FC-AL card but I suspect that we have missed something.

We also tried using slot 5 (a 64 bit slot) for an ATM card with no problems so I wonder why they are restricted to slots 1-3, all that I can think of is that slots 4-9 are 66 MHz slots but I can't find anything in the manual.

Any comments?

/Michael