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-Linux PCI-HOWTO
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-!!!Linux PCI-HOWTO
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-!!by Michael Will, Michael.Will@student.uni-tuebingen.dev0.6h, 24 June 2001
-
-
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-'' Information on what works with Linux and PCI-boards and what does not. Please get the latest version of this document at
-The Linux Documentation Project''
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-
-
-
-
-!!1. Introduction
-
-
-
-
-!!2. Why PCI?
-
-
-*2.1 General overview
-
-*2.2 Performance
-
-*2.3 The onboard-SCSI-II-chip NCR53c810
-
-*2.4 Drew Eckhardt on PCI-SCSI:
-
-*2.5 New Alpha Version of the NCR driver
-
-*2.6 The EATA-DMA driver and the PCI SCSI controllers from DPT
-
-*2.7 BT-946C fully supported with kernel 1.3.x and newer
-
-*2.8 Future Domain TMC-3260 PCI SCSI
-
-*2.9 other thoughts on scsi
-
-
-
-
-
-!!3. ASUS-Boards
-
-
-*3.1 ASUS and the NMI (Parity) -- impact on Gravis-Ultrasound
-
-*3.2 Various types of ASUS Boards
-
-*3.3 Benchmarks on ASUS Mainboards
-
-*3.4 Detailed information on the old ASUS PCI-I-SP3 with saturn chipset from heinrich@zsv.gmd.de:
-
-*3.5 Pat Dowler (dowler@pt1B1106.FSH.UVic.CA) with ASUS SP3G
-
-
-
-
-
-!!4. confusion about saturn chipsets
-
-
-
-
-!!5. Video-Cards
-
-
-
-
-!!6. Ethernet Cards
-
-
-*6.1 3com-3c590-tpo
-
-*6.2 DEC435 PCI NIC
-
-
-
-
-
-!!7. Motherboards
-
-
-*7.1 ASUS
-
-*7.2 Micronics P54i-90
-
-*7.3 SA486P AIO-II
-
-*7.4 Sirius SPACE
-
-*7.5 Gateway-2000
-
-*7.6 Intel-Premiere
-
-*7.7 DELL Poweredge SP4100 gbelow@pmail.sams.ch - successful
-
-*7.8 DELL !OptiPlex Gl+ 575
-
-*7.9 Comtrade Best Buy PCI / PCI48X MB Rev 1.
-
-*7.10 IDeal PCI / PCI48X MB Rev 1.
-
-*7.11 CMD Tech. PCI IDE / CSA-6400C
-
-*7.12 GA-486iS (Gigabyte)
-
-*7.13 GA-586-ID (Gigabyte) 90 Mhz Pentium PCI/EISA Board
-
-*7.14 ESCOM 486dx2/66 - which board?
-
-*7.15 J-Bond with i486dx2/66
-
-*7.16 super micro 011895 03:50 SUPER P54CI-PCI rev 1.3 (Opti)
-
-
-
-
-
-!!8. reports on success
-
-
-*8.1 !GigaByte GA486-AM with AMD Am5x86-133-WB @ 160MHz (40MHz PCI)
-
-*8.2 California Graphics - Sunray II Pro
-
-*8.3 Micronics P54i-90 (root@intellibase.gte.com)
-
-*8.4 Angelo Haritsis (ah@doc.ic.ac.uk) about SA486P AIO-II:
-
-*8.5 bill.foster@mccaw.com about his Micronics M5Pi
-
-*8.6 Simon Karpen (karpens@ncssm-server.ncssm.edu) with Micronics M54pi
-
-*8.7 Goerg von Below (gbelow@pmail.sams.ch) about DELL Poweredge
-
-*8.8 zenon@resonex.com about Gateway2000 P-66
-
-*8.9 James D. Levine (jdl@netcom.com) with Gateway2000
-
-*8.10 hi86@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de with SPACE
-
-*8.11 grif@cs.ucr.edu with INTEL
-
-*8.12 Jermoe Meyers (jeromem@amiserv.xnet.com) with Intel Premiere
-
-*8.13 Timothy Demarest (demarest@rerf.or.jp) Intel Plato Premiere II
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-*8.14 heinrich@zsv.gmd.de with ASUS
-
-*8.15 CARSTEN@AWORLD.aworld.de with ASUS
-
-*8.16 Lars Heinemann (lars@uni-paderborn.de) with ASUS
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-*8.17 Ruediger.Funck@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE with ASUS
-
-*8.18 robert logan (rl@de-montfort.ac.uk with GW/2000)
-
-*8.19 archie@CS.Berkeley.EDU and his friend use ASUS
-
-*8.20 Michael Will with ASUS-SP3 486 (the old one)
-
-*8.21 Mike Frisch (mfrisch@saturn.tlug.org) Giga-Byte 486IM
-
-*8.22 Karl Keyte (kkeyte@esoc.bitnet) Gigabyte GA586 Pentium
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-*8.23 kenf@clark.net with G/W 2000
-
-*8.24 Joerg Wedeck (jw@peanuts.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de) / ESCOM
-
-*8.25 Ulrich Teichert / ASUS
-
-
-
-
-
-!!9. Reports of problems
-
-
-*9.1 Compaq PCI systems, especially Presarios
-
-*9.2 VLSI Wildcat PCI chipset like in Zeos P120 box
-
-*9.3 dmarples@comms.eee.strathclyde.ac.uk G/W 2000
-
-*9.4 cip574@wpax01.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Frank Hofmann) / ASUS
-
-*9.5 axel@avalanche.cs.tu-berlin.de (Axel Mahler) / ASUS
-
-*9.6 Frank Strauss (strauss@dagoba.escape.de) / ASUS
-
-*9.7 egooch@mc.com / ASUS
-
-*9.8 Stefan.Dalibor@informatik.uni-erlangen.de / !GigaByte
-
-*9.9 Steve Durst (sdurst@burns.rl.af.mil) with UMC 8500 mainboard
-
-*9.10 Tom Drabenstott (tldraben@Teleport.Com) with Comtrade / PCI48IX
-
-
-
-
-
-!!10. General tips for PCI-Motherboard + Linux NCR PCI SCSI
-
-
-*10.1 DON'Ts:
-
-*10.2 SIMM slots
-
-*10.3 Praised PCI Pentium motherboard
-
-*10.4 irq-lines
-
-*10.5 Info about the different NCR 8xx family scsi chips:
-
-*10.6 future of 53c8xx
-
-*10.7 Performance of the 53c810
-
-*10.8 News about NCR53c825 support
-
-*10.9 Frederic POTTER (Frederic.Potter@masi.ibp.fr) about Pentium+NCR+Strap_bug
-
-*10.10 PCIprobe in the latest Linux Kernels by Frederic Potter
-
-*10.11 Other PCI Devices
-
-
-
-
-
-!!11. Conclusion
-
-
-
-
-!!12. Thanks
-
-
-
-
-!!13. copyright/legalese
-
-
-
-
-!!14. GPL - Gnu Public License
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-
-!!1. Introduction
-
-
-
-
-
-Many people, including me, would like to run Linux on a PCI-based machine.
-Since it is not obvious which PCI motherboards and PCI cards will work
-with Linux and which do not, I conducted a survey and spent some hours
-to compile the information contained herein. Most of this was done before 1997
-and more uptodate technology might be covered in the device specific howtos
-such as the XFree86, Xinerama, Networking and Hardware-HOWTO.
-
-
-If you have information to add, please mail me. If you have
-questions, feel free to ask.
-
-
-Help with my style/grammar/language is welcome as well. I am not a native-
-speaker of English and expect to make occasional mistakes.
-
-
-Note: "on-board chip" refers to a SCSI chip
-integrated onto the motherboard rather than on a PCI expansion card.
-
-
-Also, "quotes" herein may have slight context editing.
-
-
-
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-
-!!2. Why PCI?
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-!!2.1 General overview
-
-
-
-The PC-architecture has several BUS-Systems to choose from:
-
-; __ISA__:
-
-16 or 8bit, cheap, slow (usually 8Mhz), standard, many cards available>
-; __EISA__:
-
-32bit, expensive, fast, few cards available, fading>
-; __MCA__:
-
-32 or 16bit ex-IBM-proprietary, fast, becoming rare>
-; __VESA-Local-Bus__:
-
-32bit, based on 486 architecture, cheap, fast, many cards available>
-; __PCI-Local-Bus__:
-
-32bit (64 bit coming), cheap, fast, many cards available, nowadays standard>
-
-
-
-
-
-
-MCA worked fine, but never achieved much market, being used on only
-some early IBM PS/2 machines. There were very few cards.
-
-
-EISA was reliable, but rather expensive, and intended more for
-servers, than for the average user. It has the next fewest cards
-available.
-
-
-VESA-Local-Bus (VLB) had some problems with high bus-speeds, and was
-not very reliable, but mainly due to its low price and better-than-ISA
-performance, sold very well. Technically, it's almost a direct map of
-the 486 processor bus. Most VESA boards should be stable by now. At
-the beginning of 1996, many 486 motherboards still support VESA, but
-PCI is growing. VESA busses are tied directly to the speed of the
-memory bus for 486's, or half the speed for Pentiums.
-
-
-PCI now has the advantage. Like EISA it is not proprietary. It is as
-faster than EISA or MCA, and cheaper. Most current Pentium
-motherboards use the PCI bus; VESA is fading. Virtualy all PCI
-motherboards and cards sold at the beginning of 1996 are 32 bit, and
-run at -33 MHz.
-
-
-Currently, most Pentium motherboards run the PCI bus at 1/2 the memory
-speed (ie: 33 MHz for the 66 MHz memory bus on the P66,P100,P133,P166;
-30 MHz for the 60 MHz memory bus on the P60,P90,P120,P150; and 25 Mhz
-on the 50 MHz memory bus of the P75). This is probably true of Cyrix
-6x86 motherboards too. !NexGen 5x86 implemention isn't known.
-The PCI spec does allow the PCI bus to be run asynchronously from the
-processor, (eg: 33 Mhz bus on P75), but this is not common yet.
-
-
-PCI 2.1 has been defined, allowing 64 bit PCI, and/or -66 MHz
-operations, but no x86 chipsets yet support these options. 64 bit PCI
-will probably appear first, in 32/64 bit dual compatible versions.
-That is, you will be able to mix 32 and 64 bit cards. 66 MHz PCI will
-take longer, as it's technically demanding, can only support one or
-maybe two slots per bridge, and may not work well with 33 MHz cards.
-
-
-PCI is not processor dependent like the VESA Local-Bus. This means you
-can use the winner-1000-PCI in an Alpha-driven-PCI computer as well as
-in a i486/Pentium-driven PCI computer, with the appropriate BIOS and
-software. Beside Intel and DEC Alpha platforms, PCI is used on some
-PowerPC's.
-
-
-Some PCI variations to be aware of: some implementations support "Bus
-Master" cards in all PCI slots, some in only one slot, and some not at
-all; some implementations support "bridging" on cards and some do not.
-
-
-
-
-!!2.2 Performance
-
-
-
-taken from Craig Sutphin's early Pro-PCI-Propaganda
-
-
-
-
-Unlike some local buses, which are aimed at speeding up graphics
-alone, the PCI Local Bus is a total system solution, providing
-increased performance for networks, disk drives, full-motion video,
-graphics and the full range of high-speed peripherals. At 33 MHz, the
-synchronous PCI Local Bus transfers 32 bits of data at up to 132
-Mbytes/sec. A transparent 64-bit extension of
-the 32-bit data and address buses can double the bus bandwidth (264
-Mbytes/sec) and offer forward and backwards compatibility for 32 and
-64-bit PCI Local Bus peripherals. Because it is processor-independent,
-the PCI Local Bus is optimized for I/O functions, enabling the local
-bus to operate concurrent with the processor/memory subsystem.
-For users of high-end desktop PC's, PCI makes high reliability, high
-performance and ease of use more affordable than ever before; no trivial task
-at 33 MHz bus-clock rates. Variable length linear or toggle mode
-bursting for both reads and writes improves write dependent graphics
-performance. By comprehending the loading and frequency requirements
-of the local bus at the component level, buffers and glue logic are
-eliminated.
-
-
-
-See the chapter about Benchmarks for some crude (and perhaps meaningless)
-benchmarks on ASUS PCI Boards with 486 and 586.
-
-
-
-
-!!2.3 The onboard-SCSI-II-chip NCR53c810
-
-
-
-One very nice feature of some PCI mother boards is the NCR
-onboard-SCSI-II-chip, which is said to be as fast as the
-EISA-Adaptec-1742, but much cheaper. Drivers for DOS/OS2 are
-available. Drew Eckard has released his version of his
-NCR53c810-driver, which is in the standard kernel since v1.2.
-
-
-This works so well I sold my adaptec-1542B-ISA soon after I bought the
-ASUS SP3-saturn-chipset II PCI board, and found the onboard NCR-SCSI
-controller to be much faster.
-
-
-The NCR53c810-chip is onboard on some PCI-motherboards.
-There are add-on-boards available too, for about US$ 70.00.
-
-
-There is only one thing I noticed did not work with the NCR-drivers
-when I tried them. Disconnect/Reconnect did not work, so using a
-SCSI-tape could be a pain, especially when using "mt erase" or the
-like blocks the whole SCSI-bus until it has finished. Since this was
-very unsatisfying for me, I bought one of these nice but expensive DPT
-PCI SCSI controller and had no such problems anymore.
-
-
-People have reported this problem has been solved by Drew by now.
-
-
-FreeBSD does support the NCR53c810 for quite a long time already,
-including Tagged Command Queues, FAST, WIDE and Disconnect for NCR
-53c810, 815, 825. Drew said, it would be possible to adapt the FreeBSD
-driver to Linux. I somewhere saw some patches to do exactly this, any
-pointer to the location?
-
-
-I personaly have the impression there are some important wheels
-invented more than once because of the differently evolving of FreeBSD
-and Linux. Some more cooperation could do both systems very well...
-
-
-
-
-!!2.4 Drew Eckhardt on PCI-SCSI:
-
-
-
-
-
-
-Drew said on end of March 95 about the SCSI on PCI:
-(slightly edited for clarity in context)
-
-
-The Adaptec 2940, Buslogic BT946, BT946W, DPT PCI boards, Future Domain 3260,
-NCR53c810, NCR53c815, NCR53c820, and NCR53c825 all work for some definition of
-the word works.
-
-
-
-
-
-* The Adaptec 2940 suffers from the same cabling sensitivity
-that plagues all recent boards, but otherwise works fine.
-*
-
-* The Future Domain boards are not busmasters, and the driver doesn't
-support multiple simultaenous commands. If you don't (currently)
-need multiple simultaneous commands, get a NCR board, which will
-be cheaper and is busmastering. If you need multiple simultaneous
-commands, get a Buslogic.
-*
-
-* The Buslogic BT956W will do WIDE SCSI with the Linux drivers (although
-you can't use targets 8-15), the Adaptec 2940W (with one line patch
-to the 2940 driver) won't, nor will the NCR53c820 and NCR53c825.
-*
-
-* The NCR boards are dirt cheap (< $ 70 US), are generally quite fast,
-but the driver currently doesn't support multiple simultaenous
-commands. Alpha which do neat things like disconnect/reconnect and
-synchronous transfer are now publicly available, see below.
-*
-
-* Emulux, Forex, and other unmentioned PCI SCSI controllers will
-not work.
-*
-
-
-
-
-
-!!2.5 New Alpha Version of the NCR driver
-
-
-
-
-
-
-Well, this is not exactly *that* new anymore, please try to he
-versions which are in the kernel by version 2..x before going for
-this entry.
-
-
-Alpha versions of the NCR driver which do neat things like disconnect/reconnect
-and synchronous transfers are now publically available. Any one interested
-in playing with them should
-
-
-* Join the NCR mailing list, by sending mail to majordomo@colorado.edu
-with subscribe ncr53c810 in the text.
-*
-
-* Get all of the readmes, and latest diffs file from
-ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/ALPHA/linux/SCSI/ncr53c810
-*
-
-
-
-
-
-!!2.6 The EATA-DMA driver and the PCI SCSI controllers from DPT
-
-
-
-
-
-
-The EATA-DMA scsi driver has undergone extensive changes and now also
-supports PCI SCSI controllers, multiple controllers and all SCSI channels
-on the multichannel !SmartCache/Raid boards in all combinations
-of WIDE, FAST-20 (ULTRA) and DIFFERENTIAL.
-
-
-
-
-
-The driver supports all EATA-DMA Protocol (CAM document CAM/89-004
-rev. 2.0c) compliant SCSI controllers and has been tested
-with many of those controllers in mixed combinations.
-
-
-
-
-Those are: (ISA) (EISA) (PCI)
-DPT Smartcache: PM2011 PM2012B
-Smartcache III: PM2021 PM2022 PM2024
-PM2122 PM2124
-PM2322
-Smartcache IV: PM2041 PM2042 PM2044
-PM2142 PM2144
-PM2322
-SmartRAID : PM3021 PM3122
-PM3222 PM3224
-PM3334
-and some controllers from NEC, AT&T, SNI, AST, Olivetti and Alphatronix.
-
-
-
-On a "base" DPT card (no caching or RAID module), a MC680x0 controls
-the bus-mastering DMA chip(s) and the SCSI controller chip.
-The DPT SCSI card almost works like a SCSI coprocessor.
-
-
-The DPT card also will emulate an IDE controller/drive (ST506 interface),
-which enables you to use it with all operating systems even if they don't
-have an EATA driver.
-
-
-On a card with the caching module, the 680x0 maintains and manages the
-on-board cacheing. The DPT card supports up to 64 MB RAM for disk-cacheing.
-
-
-On a card with the RAID module, the 680x0 also performs the management
-of the RAID, doing the mirroring on RAID-1, doing the striping and ECC
-info generation on RAID-5, etc.
-
-
-The entry level boards utilize a Motorola 68000, the high-end, more raid
-specific DPT cards use a 68020, 68030 or 68040/40MHz processor.
-
-
-Official list prices range from $ 265 to $1.645 (January 18, 1996)
-
-
-
-
-
-Since I've been asked numerous times where you can buy those boards
-in Europe, I asked DPT to send me a list of their official European
-distributors. Here is a small excerpt:
-
-
-
-
-Austria: Macrotron GmbH Tel:+43 1 408 15430 Fax:+43 1 408 1545
-Denmark: Tallgrass Technologies A/S Tel:+45 86 14 7000 Fax:+45 86 14 7333
-Finland: Computer 2000 Finnland OY Tel:+35 80 887 331 Fax:+35 80 887 333 43
-France : Chip Technologies Tel:+33 1 49 60 1011 Fax:+33 1 49 599350
-Germany: Akro Datensysteme GmbH Tel:+49 ()89 3178701 Fax:+49 ()89 31787299
-Russia : Soft-tronik Tel:+7 812 315 92 76 Fax:+7 812 311 01 08
-U.K. : Ambar Systems Ltd. Tel:+44 1296 311 300 Fax:+44 296 479 461
-
-
-
-"IMHO, the DPT cards are the best-designed SCSI cards available for a PC.
-And I've written code for just about every type of SCSI card for the PC.
-(Although, in retrospect, I don't know why!) ;-)"
-Jon R. Taylor (jtaylor@magicnet.net) President, Visionix, Inc.
-
-
-The latest version of the EATA-DMA driver and a Slackware bootdisk is
-available on:
-ftp.i-Connect.Net:/pub/Local/EATA
-
-
-
-
-
-Since patchlevel 1.1.81 the driver is included in the standard kernel
-distribution.
-
-
-The author can be reached under these addresses:
-neuffer@mail.uni-mainz.de or mike@i-Connect.Net
-
-
-
-
-!!2.7 BT-946C fully supported with kernel 1.3.x and newer
-
-
-
-
-
-
-There is a driver in the 1.3.x kernels (available as a patch for the
-1.2.13 kernel) written by someone associated with buslogic that fully
-supports the 946C and ALL of it's features including strict round
-robin, tagged queueing, multiple scatter/gather, multiple mailboxes,
-IRQ sharing, and yes, 15 devices on Fast/Wide. It is no longer
-necessary to use any ISA emulation with the driver (no DMA channel, no
-ISA address), and the driver is /fast/ and /stable/ (it's out of BETA
-and into full release).
-
-
-The driver is available on ftp.dandelion.com (the newest version can
-always be got by doing "get !BusLogic*"). It supports ALL !BusLogic
-controllers with the exception of the !FlashPoint LT, which uses a
-different interface. The driver is included in the 1.3.x kernels as
-standard for !BusLogic devices.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-!!2.8 Future Domain TMC-3260 PCI SCSI
-
-
-
-
-
-
-Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) informed me on Wed, 1 Feb 1995 about the
-Future Domain TMC-3260 PCI SCSI card being supported by the Future
-Domain 16x0 SCSI driver. Newer information might be contained in the
-SCSI-HOWTO.
-
-
-
-
-
-* Detection is not done well, and does not use standard PCI BIOS
-detection methods (someone who has a PCI board needs to send me
-patches to fix this problem). So, you might have to fiddle with the
-detection routine in the kernel to get it detected.
-*
-
-* The driver still does not support multiple outstanding commands, so
-your system will hang while your tape rewinds.
-*
-
-* The driver does not support the enhanced pseudo-32bit transfer mode
-supported by recent Future Domain chips, so you will not get
-transfer rates as high as under DOS.
-*
-
-* The driver only supports the SCSI-I protocol, so your really fast
-hard disks will not get used at the highest possible
-throughput. (Again, fixes for all these problems are solicited -- no
-one is working on them at this time.)
-*
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-!!2.9 other thoughts on scsi
-
-
-
-
-
-
-James Soutter (J.K.Soutter1@lut.ac.uk) asked me to add the
-following information on Fast-Wide-SCSI-2:
-
-
-
-
-Fast Wide SCSI-2 is sometimes incorrectly called SCSI-3. It differs
-from the normal Fast SCSI-2 (like the Adapted 1542B?) because it uses
-a 16 bit data bus rather than the more usual 8 bit bus. This improves
-the maximum transfer rate from 10 MB/s to 20 MB/s but requires the use
-of special Fast Wide SCSI-2 drives.
-
-
-The added performance of Fast
-Wide SCSI-2 will not necessarily improve the speed of your system.
-Most hard disk drives have a maximum internal transfer rate of
-less than 10 MB/s and so one drive alone can not flood a FAST SCSI-2
-bus.
-
-
-In Seagate's Oct 1993 product overview, only one Fast Wide SCSI-2
-drive has an internal transfer rate of more than 10 MB/s (the ST12450W).
-Most of the drives have a maximum internal transfer rate of 6 MB/s
-or less, although the ST12450W is not the only exception to the rule.
-In conclusion, Fast Wide SCSI is designed for the file server market
-and will not necessarily benefit a single user workstation style
-system.
-
-
-Rather than buying a PCI system with a SCSI interface on the
-motherboard, or rather than waiting for the NCR driver, you could purchase a
-separate PCI based SCSI card. According to Drew, the only PCI SCSI option that
-stands a chance of working is the Buslogic 946. It purports to be
-Adaptec 1540 compatible, like the EISA/VESA/ISA boards in the series.
-
-
-Drew commented that other PCI based SCSI controllers are unlikely
-to be supported under Linux or the BSD's because the NCR based
-controllers are cheaper and more prevalent.
-
-
-
-I definitly recommend reading the SCSI HOWTO in regards to newer
-information about PCI SCSI drivers.
-
-
-Ernst Kloecker (ernst@cs.tu-berlin.de) wrote:
-(edited)
-
-Talus Corporation has finished a NS/FIP driver for PCI boards with NCR
-SCSI. It will be shipping very soon, might even be free because a third
-party might pay for the work and donate the driver to NeXT.
-
-
-
-Not every PCI-Board has got the chip. The old ASUS do, and one of the
-J-Bond boards does, too. (Most of the boards nowadays (6/95) do expect you to
-buy the NCR53c810 seperately.) Some vendors provide an alternative as you
-can read in Drew's text...
-
-
-The NCR-Chip is clever enough to work with drives formatted by other
-controllers, and should be no problem.
-
-
-
-----
-
-!!3. ASUS-Boards
-
-!!3.1 ASUS and the NMI (Parity) -- impact on Gravis-Ultrasound
-
-
-
-The newer trition PCI-Mainboards in 1995 did not seem to
-support parity-SIMMS anymore. Since I usualy took the cheaper
-nonparity-SIMMS anyway, I did not consider this a problem until I put
-the Gravis-Ultrasound into my machine. Under DOS the SBOS-Driver and
-Setup/Test utility does complain about "nmi procedure disabled on this
-p.c.". The manual says I'd better get a better mainboard in that case,
-not very helpful.
-
-
-The gravis-ultrasound did work nice in the ASUS-SP3 and ASUS-SP4,
-inspite of this, but the gravis-ultrasound-max I have
here got
-gmod to kernel panic on both boards, and sometimes when playing
-au-files via /dev/audio did strange things, like playing the rest of
-an older, previously played sound after the new one. The sounddriver
-does recommend a buffer of 65536 with the GUS Max instead of the small
-one like the GUS - why I do not know. I do not have such a problem
-with the newer ASUS TP4 XE boards, though.
-Both are equipped with 1M DRAM onboard. These problems are probably
-not related to the NMI-problem, but because of the sounddriver?
-
-
-I heard not only ASUS but most of the newer PCI-Mainboards are lacking
-in parity/NMI-support.
-
-
-Strange enough - the ASUS-TP4 (Trition Chipset) does work with the GUS Max
-- it does load the SBOS-Driver. I have to admit, I am confused.
-
-
-
-
-!!3.2 Various types of ASUS Boards
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-!ASUS SP3 with saturn chipset I (rev. 2) for 486,
-
-
-
-
-
-* 2 x rs232 with 16550
-*
-
-* NCR53c810 onboard,
-*
-
-* slightly broken saturn-chipset I (rev. 2)
-*
-
-
-
-
-
-!ASUS SP3G with saturn chipset II (rev. 4) for 486,
-
-
-like SP3, but less buggy saturn chipset
-
-
-
-
-!ASUS SP3-SiS chipset, for 486
-
-
-like AP4, but newer, SiS chipset, green functions and
-all the EIDE, rs232 with 2 16550 and centronics.
-Only 2 SIMM Slots, Does seem to work with AMD486DX4/120,
-but was not very reliably on NCR53c810 and various operating
-systems (Windows-NT, Windows95, OS2), after upgrading to a
-!PentiumBoard ASUS SP4, all the problems vanished, so it must have
-been the board. Still does seem to work nice for Linux, though.
-
-
-
-
-!ASUS AP4, for 486, with PCI/ISA/!VesaLocalbus
-
-
-green functions, 1VL, 3 ISA, 4 PCI slots, only EIDE onboard,
-no fd-controller, no rs232/centronics. Very small size.
-
-
-does recognice AMD486DX2/66 as DX4/100 only. This can be
-corrected with soldering one pin (which?) to ground, but I would not
-recommend a board like this anyway.
-
-
-The one I tested was broken for OS2 and Linux, but people are
-said to use it for both.
-
-
-The !VesaLocalbus-Slot is expected to be slower than the normal
-vesa-localbus boards because of the PCI2VL bridge, but without penalty
-to the PCI section.
-
-
-
-
-!ASUS SP4-SiS, for Pentium90, PCI/ISA
-
-
-like SP3-SiS, but for Pentium90/100.
-
-
-
-
-!ASUS TP4 with Triton chipset and EDO-Support
-
-
-has the Triton-Chipset for better performance and supports
-normal PS2-Simms as well as Fast-Page-Mode and EDO modules.
-
-
-
-
-!ASUS TP4XE with Triton chipset and additional SRAM/EDORAM support
-
-
-supports the new EDORAM and upcoming SRAM standards. At least
-SRAM is said to considerabely increase performance. Did for some
-reason not accept the 8M PS2-SIMMS working ok in ASUS SP4, after
-changing them against others, bigger looking ones, (16 chips instead
-of 8 if I remember right) it worked ok. Has been tested with P90 and
-P100.
-
-
-
-
-!...and many others now.
-
-
-if you have new information on problems with them, please report.
-
-
-
-
-!!3.3 Benchmarks on ASUS Mainboards
-
-
-
-I tried to compare the speed of CPUs in two ASUS Mainboards: for 486 I tested
-the SP3 SiS (the one with one vesa-local-bus slot) and for 586 I tested the
-ASUS TP4/XE, each with 16M RAM, always the same unloaded system with another CPU,
-with whetstone and dhrystone.
-
-
-I must admit, I have not read the benchmarks-faq yet, and will probably edit
-the section a loot soon. If you have any comments, please mail me.
-
-
-I am especially confused about the amd486DX4/100 being faster on dhrystones
-than the DX4/120 version? I did not see that kind of inconsistency on comparing
-the P90 and P100.
-
-
-Perhaps this was at fault: when I plugged in the amdDX4-100, I had
-the board jumpered for DX2-66. While the BIOS did report it as an DX4-100,
-the board might have used the wrong clockspeeds... but since DX2-66 uses
-33Mhz * 2 and DX4 uses 33Mhz * 3, this would have been correct?
-
-
-The board running with DX4-120 is jumpered to 40Mhz * 3 = 120 Mhz.
-
-
-Another thing I wonder about is why the whetstones-result does
-yield so even numbers on some machines?
-
-
-
-
-!ASUS SP3 with amd486DX4-100
-
-
-
-
-
-* Dhrystone time for 500000 passes = 7 by 63559 dhrystones/second
-*
-
-* Whetstone time for 1000 passes = 5 by 200.0000 Whetstones/second
-*
-
-
-
-
-
-!ASUS SP3 with amd486DX4-120
-
-
-
-
-
-* Dhrystone time for 500000 passes = 8 by 56074 dhrystones/second
-*
-
-* Whetstone time for 1000 passes = 4 by 250.0000 Whetstones/second
-*
-
-
-
-
-
-!ASUS SP3 with intel486DX2-66
-
-
-
-
-
-* Dhrystone time for 500000 passes = 9 by 50761 dhrystones/second
-*
-
-* Whetstone time for 1000 passes = 7 by 142.8571 Whetstones/second
-*
-
-
-
-
-
-!ASUS TP4/XE with intel586-90
-
-
-
-
-
-* Dhrystone time for 500000 passes = 4 by 101010 dhrystones/second
-*
-
-* Whetstone time for 1000 passes = 3 by 333.3333 Whetstones/second
-*
-
-
-
-
-
-!ASUS TP4/XE with intel586-100
-
-
-
-
-
-* Dhrystone time for 500000 passes = 4 by 102040 dhrystones/second
-*
-
-* Whetstone time for 1000 passes = 2 by 500.0000 Whetstones/second
-*
-
-
-
-
-
-!!3.4 Detailed information on the old ASUS PCI-I-SP3 with saturn chipset from heinrich@zsv.gmd.de:
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-* 3 PCI, 4 ISA Slots (3x16, 1x8 Bit)
-*
-
-* ZIF Socket for the CPU
-*
-
-* room for 4 72pin-SIMMs (max. 128M)
-*
-
-* Award BIOS in Flash-Eprom
-*
-
-* Onboard: NCR-SCSI, 1par, 2ser (with FIFO), AT-Bus, Floppy
-*
-
-
-
-The board does like most in that price class -- write-through cache,
-no write-back. This should not be significant, maybe 3% of performance.
-
-
-The BIOS supports scsi-drives under DOS/Windows without additional
-drivers, but with the board come additional drivers which are said to
-give better performance, for DOS/Windows(ASPI), OS2, Windows-NT,
-SCO-Unix, Netware (3.11 and 4, if interpreted correctly)
-
-
-Gert Doering (gert@greenie.muc.de) was saying the SCO-Unix-driver for
-the onboard-SCSI-Chip was not working properly. After two or three
-times doing: "time dd if=/dev/rhd20 of=/dev/null bs=100k count=500"
-it kernel-paniced...
-
-
-The trouble some people experienced with this board might be due to them
-using an outboard Adaptec-SCSI-Controller with "sync negotiation" turned
-on. (This predates the NCR driver release; hence the use of the
-Adaptec.) Please check that in the BIOS-Setup of the Adaptec-1542C if
-you use one and have problems with occasional hangups!
-
-
-There is a new version of the ASUS-Board which should have definitely
-less problems. It is called ASUS-PCI-I/SP3G, the G is important. It
-has the new Saturn-chipset rev. 4 and the bugs should be gone.
-They use the Saturn-ZX-variant and the new SP3G has fully PCI
-conforming level-triggered (thus shareable), BIOS-configurable interrupts.
-It has an on-board PS/2-mouseport, EPA-power-saving-modes and DX4-support,
-too. It performs excellently. If you can get the German computer magazine
-C't from July (?), you will find a test report where the ASUS-Board is the
-best around.
-
-
-Latest information about ASUS-SP3-G: You might experience crashes when
-using PCI-to-Memory-Posting. If you disable this, all works
-perfect. jw@peanuts.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de said he believed it
-to be a problem of the current Linux-kernel rather than the hardware,
-because part of the system still works when crashing, looking like a
-deadlock in the swapper, and OS2/DOS/WINDOZE don't crash at all.
-
-
-Someone else with a very old ASUS-SP3 (saturn-I chipset) reported crashes
-with using XFree86, which went away when he installed the very latest
-betaversion which seems to work around a bit of the problems.
-
-
-
-
-!!3.5 Pat Dowler (dowler@pt1B1106.FSH.UVic.CA) with ASUS SP3G
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-* ASUS SP3G board (it is rev.4 == saturn II)
-*
-
-* AMD DX4-100 CPU (need to set jumper 36 to 1&2 rather than 2&3,
-otherwise it's set the same as other 486DXn chips)
-*
-
-* 256K cache (comes with 15ns cache :-)
-*
-
-* 16meg RAM (2x8meg)
-*
-
-* ET4000 ISA video card
-*
-
-* quantum IDE hard drive
-*
-
-* SMC Elitel16 combo ethernet card
-*
-
-
-
-Unlike some other reports, I find the mouse pointer moves very smoothy
-under X (just like the ol' 386) - it is jumpy under some, but not all,
-DOS games though...
-
-
-Performance is great!! I ran some large floating point tests and found
-the performance in 3x33 (100MHz) mode to be almost 1.5x that in 2x (66MHz)
-mode (large being 500x500 doubles - 4meg or so)... I was a little dubious
-about clock-tripling but I seem to be getting full benefit :-)
-
-
-The heavily configurable energy star stuff doesn't work with the
-current AMD DX4 chips - you need an SL chip
-
-
-I really need a SCSI disk and a PCI video card :-)
-
-
-(I had a phonecall by a person who had this problem with the buggy SMC FIFO
-chipset, after using X-window they hung.)
-
-
-
-----
-
-!!4. confusion about saturn chipsets
-
-
-
-
-
-Pat Duffy (duffy@theory.chem.ubc.ca) said:
-
-
-
-
-Saturn I: these are revisions 1 and 2 of the Saturn chipsets.
-Saturn II: This is also called rev. 4 of the Saturn chipsets.
-As far as I know, rev. 3 never actually shipped, and (from a few people who
-have it) the SP3G now has rev. 4 (or Saturn II) in it.
-Confused? Well, the only real definitive answer is to get ahold of the board
-and run the debug script in the PCI chipset list on it. As far as I know,
-though, the SP3G board is indeed shipping with rev. 4 (Saturn II).
-
-
-
-
-----
-
-!!5. Video-Cards
-
-
-Linux people have successfully used # 9 XGE Level 12, ELSA Winner 1000,
-and S3-928 video cards. The XFree86(tm)-3.1.1 does support boards
-with the tseng et4000/w32 in accelerated mode, as well as S3
-Vision 864 and 964 chipsets including boards like the ELSA Winner
-1000Pro and 2000Pro, Number Nine GXE64 and GXE64Pro, Miro Crystal
-20SV). Support in the S3 Server for the Chrontel8391 clock chip has
-been added.
-
-
-Trio32 and Trio64 S3 Boards like the SPEA V7 Mirage P64 PCI and MIRO
-Crystal 40SV, are also supported, the Mach32 and Mach64 are supported
-in accelerated mode, too.
-
-
-The SVGA Driver
-
-
-16bpp mode (65K colors instead of the usual 256) support for Mach32
-boards as well as 32bpp for some S3 boards and the P9000 boards has
-been added.
-
-
-
-
-
-tldraben@teleport.com reported:
-
-
-
-
-
-* Diamond Stealth W32 (et4000/W32) -- Text mode works, X11 suffered from
-"pixel dust", unbearable never got it to work and returned it.
-*
-
-* # 9GXE L12 -- Works, virtual consoles corrupted when switched, fixed this with disabling the "fast dram mode" feature in his BIOS. Does not get a dot clock above 85, though.
-*
-
-
-
-Genoa Phantom 8900PCI card seems to work well.
-Genoa Phantom/W32 2MB does not work in an ASUS-Board.
-Tseng 3000/W32i chipset seems to work well.
-Spea-v7 mercury-lite works perfectly since XFree86(tm)-2.1.
-
-
-Spea V7 Mirage P64 PCI 2M with Trio64 works nice since
-XFree86(tm)-3.1.1
-
-
-
-
-
-ATI Graphics Ultra Pro for PCI with 2MB VRAM and an ATI68875C DAC run
-well as dem@skyline.dayton.oh.us tells us: "It's humming
-right along at 1280x1024 w/256 colors @74Hz non-interlaced. Looks
-great."
-
-
-Paradise WD90C33 PCI did lock up on screensaver/X - this has been
-solved in the newer versions of the kernel.
-jbauer@badlands.!NoDak.edu (John Edward Bauer)
-
-
-miroChrystal 8S/PCI (1MB) S3 - no problem.
-
-
-Stephen Tweedie reported his Cirrus Logics 5434 PCI card works well.
-It is a 64bit with 2M and runs perfectly with the SVGA driver in 8, 16 and
-32 bit per pixel.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-----
-
-!!6. Ethernet Cards
-
-
-Of course the ISA-ethernet-cards still work, but people are asking
-for PCI-based ones. The author of many (if not most) ethernet-
-drivers said the following some time ago (unfortunately I have not managed
-to contact him about new information):
-
-
-
-
-From: Donald Becker (becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov)
-Subject: PCI ethernet cards supported?
-
-
-The LANCE code has been extended to handle the PCI version.
-I hope to get the PCI probe code (about a dozen extra lines in the LANCE
-driver) into the next kernel version.
-I'm working on the 32 bit mode code.
-I haven't yet started the 21040 code.
-
-
-I'll write drivers for the PCnet32 mode and the DEC 21040. That
-will cover most of the PCI ethercard market.
-
-
-file://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/people/becker/whoiam.html
-
-
-
-In the new testkernels of 1.1.50 and above, the AMD-singlechip
-ethernetadapters are supported. With a pentium, they ought to then see
-900K/second ftps +(assuming an NCR PCI scsi controller) at about 20%
-cpu load. (AMD Lance).
-
-
-Anything based on the AMD PCnet/PCI chip should work at the time
-being. In the US the Boca board costs under US$ 70
-
-
-Geoffry Coram reported in the news that he got his 3com 590 TPO to work. He
-had to get the alpha driver from http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers.
-Other drivers would be there as well.
-Note http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html
-
-
-Donald Holmgren said he successfully attached his DEC DE435 (PCI) card to
-the local network on thin coax (BNC). The DE435 driver checks
-the twisted pair connection first, then switches to the
-alternate port (jumper selectable as AUI or BNC) if the
-10BaseT port fails.
-
-
-Jim Cusick uses the Boca BEN 1PI card on a thin coax network.
-It works just fine. You might want to check out:
-http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/misc/boca-failure.html
-for details on the early failures of this card. My second card, after
-sending one back for replacement, was marked "PN 4186". The old one
-that did not work was "PN 4185". Mandate this newer model when you order
-from you vendor. At $ 70, the card is a good deal.
-
-
-Dave Platt recommends to stay off the Boca BEN1PI card at all costs. It would
-be unreliable due to design flaws, and Boca seems unable to really fix the
-problem. The 3Com 3c590 "Vortex" PCI card is available in a combo version
-(10BaseT, thin coax, and AUI). The Linux driver for this card is not
-yet part of the release kernel, but is available from
-http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html and can be patched
-into the later 1.2.x kernels (as well as 1.3.x) without much difficulty.
-The Linux driver does not support the interface autodetect feature of
-this card - you must use the DOS utility to configure the card for the
-interface you wish to use (thin coax in this case). Once you've done
-that, the Linux driver will use the correct interface.
-
-
-He has been using a 3c590 for several weeks, and it is working fine.
-
-
-Dave Kennedy said he got two of the above Boca boards and they work fine under
-light load, but under heavy work like ftping two 16M files into both
-directions, they failed. He sent the boards back to Boca for a
-hardwarefix. After they soldered a couple of things (diodes/resistors)
-onto the card and sent them back, the cards worked fine regardless of
-load. The two cards have been in 7/24 use in two P90 systems without
-problems for 6 months now.
-
-
-Craig does not recommend it since Boca seems not to follow the
-AMD specs but he has been running them for 2 weeks without problems. He tested
-his NFS performance and has been moving large files to and from server (16M, 8M).
-He also tried to do all his workin localy using his data files mounted by NFS
-and has had no problems. Performance seems to be 100 percent better (wrt to NFS performance)
-over his NE2000 ISA board. (editors note: but so would probably have been
-the ISA SMC Elite Ultra?)
-
-
-
-
-!!6.1 3com-3c590-tpo
-
-
-
-
-
-
-Someone on usenet mentioned ht used the 3Com-3C590-TPO (!EtherLink III - PCI).
-He had to get the "3c59x.c" driver and "vortex.patch" to make it work with
-his 1.2.8 Linux kernel.
-
-
-
-
-!!6.2 DEC435 PCI NIC
-
-
-
-
-
-
-The DEC435 PCI NIC is said to work great with the drivers included
-in the Slackwaredistribution - I'd say they are in the standard-kernel?
-
-
-
-----
-
-!!7. Motherboards
-
-
-The people who answered were using the following boards:
-
-
-
-
-!!7.1 ASUS
-
-
-
-
-
-
-* Ruediger.Funck@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE - successful.
-*
-
-* strauss@dagoba.escape.de - half-successful, works, but...
-*
-
-* krypton@netzservice.de (Ulrich Teichert), - successful.
-*
-
-* heinrich@zsv.gmd.de - successful
-*
-
-* CARSTEN@AWORLD.aworld.de - successful
-*
-
-* egooch@mc.com - successful - but trouble with the serial port
-*
-
-* archie@CS.Berkeley.EDU and his friend - successful after
-solving IDE-puzzle
-*
-
-* Lars Heinemann (lars@uni-paderborn.de) successful
-*
-
-* Michael Will (Michael.Will@student.uni-tuebingen.de) - successful.
-*
-
-
-
-
-
-!!7.2 Micronics P54i-90
-
-
-
-
-
-
-root@intellibase.gte.com succesful
-bill.foster@mccaw.com successful
-karpens@ncssm-server.ncssm.edu successful
-
-
-
-
-!!7.3 SA486P AIO-II
-
-
-
-
-
-
-ah@doc.ic.ac.uk successful
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-!!7.4 Sirius SPACE
-
-
-
-
-
-
-hi86@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de - successful
-
-
-
-
-!!7.5 Gateway-2000
-
-
-
-kenf@clark.net - no problems except the soundcard he tries to swap
-dmarples@comms.eee.strathclyde.ac.uk - successful, but...
-robert logan (rl@de-montfort.ac.uk) - flawless.
-James D. Levine (jdl@netcom.com) - flawless.
-
-
-
-
-!!7.6 Intel-Premiere
-
-
-
-grif@cs.ucr.edu - successful
-jeromem@amiserv.xnet.com - successful
-demarest@rerf.or.jp - successful (Premier-II)
-
-
-
-
-!!7.7 DELL Poweredge SP4100 gbelow@pmail.sams.ch - successful
-
-
-!!7.8 DELL !OptiPlex Gl+ 575
-torsten@videonetworks.com - successful when turning off plug and play
-
-!!7.9 Comtrade Best Buy PCI / PCI48X MB Rev 1.
-
-
-
-tldraben@Teleport.Com - "Works, I believe it has buggy Saturn
-chipset. I would also like to add: I strongly recommend not buying from
-Contrade. Their service is horrible. "
-
-
-
-
-!!7.10 IDeal PCI / PCI48X MB Rev 1.
-
-
-
-tldraben@Teleport.Com - "Did not work with PCI48X motherboard"
-
-
-
-
-!!7.11 CMD Tech. PCI IDE / CSA-6400C
-
-
-
-tldraben@!TelePort.com - "Works"
-
-
-
-
-!!7.12 GA-486iS (Gigabyte)
-
-
-
-Stefan.Dalibor@informatik.uni-erlangen.de - success with problems.
-
-
-
-
-!!7.13 GA-586-ID (Gigabyte) 90 Mhz Pentium PCI/EISA Board
-
-
-
-kkeyte@esoc.bitnet - succesful
-
-
-
-
-!!7.14 ESCOM 486dx2/66 - which board?
-
-
-
-Works perfect except the ftape-streamer (archive)
-
-
-
-
-!!7.15 J-Bond with i486dx2/66
-
-
-
-Drew Eckhardt (drew@kinglear.cs.Colorado.EDU) uses Diamond Stealth 64 VRAM with
-4M of memory (964 based). It works great, he usualy runs it at 1024x768 72hz in
-32bpp; 16 and 8bpp also work. He needed to get the X311u2S3.tgz server from ftp.xfree86.org;
-people with 968 based Diamond boards will definately need to do this.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-!!7.16 super micro 011895 03:50 SUPER P54CI-PCI rev 1.3 (Opti)
-
-
-
-
-Manuel de Vega Barreiro
-
-
-* board super micro 011895 03:50 SUPER P54CI-PCI rev 1.3
-*
-
-* Opti chipset: 82c557,82c556,82c558,82c621.
-*
-
-* 4 PCI, 4 ISA Slots (4x16 Bit)
-*
-
-* ZIF Socket for CPU (120,100,90,75 mHz)
-*
-
-* 4 72 pin-SIMMs (max 128Mb)
-*
-
-* cache 256,512,1024 Kb L2-cache
-*
-
-* Ami WinBIOS in Flash-Eprom (101094-VIPER-P)
-*
-
-* onboard: EIDE for 4 drives
-*
-
-* Pentium with 90Mhz, 8M (now 16M) RAM and 256K L2-cache.
-*
-
-* 1 maxtor 540 Mb, 1 st3122A 1Gb
-*
-
-* Number Nine 9GXE64pro with 2Mb
-*
-
-* Sound blaster 16 + cdrom Matsushita
-*
-
-* 17" microscan 5ep ADI monitor
-*
-
-I run linux 1.1.57 (now 1.2.1) without problems.
-dosemu0.53 work fine (com. software like kermit and xtalk)
-XFree86 3.1 at 1024x768 resolution
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-----
-
-!!8. reports on success
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-!!8.1 !GigaByte GA486-AM with AMD Am5x86-133-WB @ 160MHz (40MHz PCI)
-
-
-
-
-
-
-!GigaByte GA486-AM
-
-
-
-
-
-* AMD Am5x86-133-WB @ 160MHz (40MHz PCI)
-*
-
-* BIOS as of 11/07/95 (Rev.A)
-*
-
-* 256KB 2nd level cache (15ns)
-*
-
-* 48MB RAM (Mixed 60/70ns)
-*
-
-
-
-Hercules Terminator 64/VIDEO (S3 765 or "Trio 64V+")
-
-
-Sound Blaster 16
-
-
-* Panasonic CR563 CD-ROM drive
-*
-
-
-
-Silicon 4Ser/3Par I/O
-
-
-* Mouse
-*
-
-* Terminal
-*
-
-* Terminal
-*
-
-* Modem (14k4)
-*
-
-* HP Laserjet III
-*
-
-
-
-Mitsumi CD-ROM controller
-
-
-* FX001D drive
-*
-
-
-
-Longshine 1MBit Floppy controller
-
-
-* IOMega Tape Insider 250
-*
-
-* 3,5" Floppy
-*
-
-* 5,25" Floppy
-*
-
-
-
-No Network card, because the 4 ISA slots are full, and I don't have a
-PCI card.
-I (now) use kernel 2..22 with APM enabled, and the hard drives power
-down and up properly without panics.
-The system is 24hrs up a day and still running. Kernel compilation takes
-between 5 and 7 minutes, depending on options.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-!!8.2 California Graphics - Sunray II Pro
-
-
-
-
-
-
-Guido Trentalancia (guido@gulliver.unian.it) reported the California
-Graphics - Sunray II Pro with Triton chipset to work well with
-Pentium100, Hd: Conner cfs420a, Conner cfs210a, crunching numbers at
-147492 dhrystones/second.
-
-
-
-
-!!8.3 Micronics P54i-90 (root@intellibase.gte.com)
-
-
-
-
-
-
-Pentium with 90Mhz, 32M RAM and 512K L2-cache. Works extremely well (a
-kernel recompile takes 10 minutes :-).
-
-
-
-
-
-The board includes:
-
-
-* UART - two 16550A high speed UARTS
-*
-
-* ECP - one enhanced parallel port
-*
-
-* Onboard IDE controller
-*
-
-* Onboard floppy controller
-*
-
-
-
-Pros: Currently, I'm using it with an Adaptec 1542CF and a 1G Seagate drive,
-No problems. Graphics is ATI Graphics Pro Turbo (PCI). Very fast. The
-serial ports can keep up with a !TeleBit T3000 modem (38400) without overruns.
-Caching above 16M does occur. There are 3 banks of SIMM slots (2 SIMM's per
-bank), with each bank capable of 64M each (2 32M 72-pin SIMM's). Each bank
-must be filled completely to be used (I'm only using bank 0 with 2 16Mx72-pin
-SIMM's). The CPU socket is a ZIF type socket. The BIOS is Phoenix, FLASH
-type.
-
-
-Drawbacks: RAM is expandable to 192M, but the L2 cache is maxed at
-512K. While the graphics are very fast, there is currently no XF86
-server for the Mach64 (well, actually there is, but it doesn't use
-any of the accelerator features; it's just an SVGA server). I don't
-know if the onboard IDE hard drive controller works; I'm prejudiced against
-a standard that won't allow my peripherals to operate across platforms, so
-I didn't buy an IDE disk; instead, I got a Seagate 31200N and a NEC 3Xi.
-
-
-Mitch
-
-
-
-
-!!8.4 Angelo Haritsis (ah@doc.ic.ac.uk) about SA486P AIO-II:
-
-
-
-The motherboard I eventually bought (in the UK) is one supporting
-486 SX/DX/DX2/DX4 chips. It is called SA486P AIO-II. Features include:
-
-
-
-
-
-* Intel Saturn v2 chipset
-*
-
-* Phoenix BIOS (flash eprom option)
-*
-
-* NCR scsi BIOS v 3.04.00
-*
-
-* 256K 15ns cache (max 512) write back and write through
-*
-
-* 4 72-pin SIMM slots in 2 banks
-*
-
-* 3 PCI slots, 4 ISA
-*
-
-* On-board NCR 53c810 scsi controller
-*
-
-* On-board IDE / floppy / 2 x 16550A uarts / enhanced parallel
-*
-
-
-
-I bought it from a company (UK) called ICS, (note I have no
-connections whatsoever with the company, just a happy customer). I use a 486/DX2-66 CPU.
-
-
-Before I had a VLB 486 m/board with a buslogic BT-445S controller that
-I was borrowing. I have 2 scsi devices: 1 barracuda 2.1GB ST12550N disk
-and a Wangtek 5525ES tape drive.
-I was expecting a lot of adventures by switching to the new motherboard,
-esp after hearing all these non-success stories on the net. To my
-surprise everything worked flawlessly on the 1st boot! (1.1.50). And it
-has been doing so for about a month now. I did not even have to repartition
-the disk: apparently the disk geometry bios translation of the 2
-controllers is the same.
-Linux has had no problems at all. SCSI is visibly much faster as well
-(sorry, I have no actual performance measurements).
-
-
-The only problems (related to Drew's linux ncr53c7,810 scsi driver - thanks
-for the good work Drew!) are:
-
-
-* no synchronous transfers are yet supported => performance hit
-*
-
-* disconnect/reconnect is disabled => disk scsi ops "hold" during certain
-slow scsi device opeartions (eg tape rewind)
-*
-
-* tagged queuing is not there (?) => performance hit
-*
-
-
-
-If you get Windows complainingg about 32-bit disk driver problems, just
-disable 32-bit disk access via Control Panel. This should not hurt
-performance. (What I did is remove the WDCTRL driver from my SYSTEM.INI).
-
-
-All else is fine. I tried the serial ports with some dos/windows s/w
-and worked ok. The IDE/floppy work ok as well. I have not tried the parallel
-yet. The motherboard is quite fast and so far I am very pleased with the
-upgrade. I have not yet tried a PCI graphics board. I will later
-on. I am using an old ISA S3 which is fine at the moment.
-
-
-PS: the NCR drivers in the 2..x kernels should have no problems of
-that kind anymore. please consult the SCSI-HOWTO for further and
-hopefully more uptodate information.
-
-
-
-
-!!8.5 bill.foster@mccaw.com about his Micronics M5Pi
-
-
-
-Micronics M5Pi motherboard with 60 MHz Pentium, PCI bus having the following components:
-
-
-
-
-16Mb RAM/512k cache
-onboard IDE, parallel, 16550A UARTS
-2 X 340MB Maxtor IDE Hard Drives
-Soundblaster 16 SCSI-II
-Toshiba 3401B SCSI CD-ROM
-Archive Viper 525MB SCSI Tape Drive
-Viewsonic 17 monitor
-Cardex Challenger PCI video card (ET4000/W32P)
-A4-Tech Serial Mouse
-
-
-
-Everything works great, Slackware installation was very easy, I can run
-Quicken 7 for DOS under DOSEMU. I run X at 1152x900 resolution at
-67Hz.
-
-
-
-
-!!8.6 Simon Karpen (karpens@ncssm-server.ncssm.edu) with Micronics M54pi
-
-
-
-I have had no problems with the above board, the on-board PCI IDE (hopefully
-soon will also have SCSI), and an ATI Mach32 (GUP) with 2MB of VRAM.
-
-
-
-
-!!8.7 Goerg von Below (gbelow@pmail.sams.ch) about DELL Poweredge
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-- Intel 486DX4/100
-- 16 MB RAM
-- DELL SCSI array (DSA) with Firmware A07, DSA-Manager 1.7
-- 1 GB SCSI HD DIGITAL
-- NEC SCSI CD-ROM
-- 2 GB internal SCSI streamer
-- 3-Com C579 EISA Ethernet card
-- ATI 6800AX PCI VGA subsystem, 1024 MB RAM
-CAVE! DELL SCSI Array controller (DSA) runs only with firmware Rev. A07 !
-A06 is buggy, impossible to reboot !
-To get it: ftp dell.com , file is /dellbbs/dsa/dsaman17.zip
-
-
-
-Apart from this firmware-problem there where no problems for the last
-2 months, running with linux 1.1.42 as primary nameserver, newsserver
-and www-server on internet.
-
-
-
-
-!!8.8 zenon@resonex.com about Gateway2000 P-66
-
-
-
-Gateway2000's P5-66 system with Intel's PCI motherboard,
-with 5 ISA slots and 3 PCI slots.
-The only PCI card I am using is the # 9 GXe level 12 PCI card (2 MB VRAM and
-1 MB DRAM). This card was bought from Dell. Under Linux I am using
-the graphics in the 80x25 mode only (I am waiting for some XFree86
-refinements before using it in 1280x1024 resolution), but under
-DOS/Windows I have used the card in 1280x1024x256 mode without
-problems. Etherlink 3C509 Ethernet card, Mitsumi bus-interface
-card, Adaptec 1542C SCSI interface card and additional serial/parallel
-ports card (which makes the total of serial ports 3).
-
-
-I have total of 32 MB RAM (recognized and used by both Linux and DOS).
-There is also a bus mouse (Microsoft in the PS2 mode).
-
-
-No problems so far.
-
-
-
-
-!!8.9 James D. Levine (jdl@netcom.com) with Gateway2000
-
-
-
-Gateway 2000 P5-60 with an Intel Mercury motherboard, AMI-Flash-BIOS,
-(1.00.03.AF1, (c)'92) 16M RAM, on-board IDE controller and an ATI AX0
-(Mach32 Ultra XLR) PCI display adapter. He had absolutely no problems
-with the hardware so far but has not tried anything fancy, such as
-accelerated IDE drivers or SCSI support.
-
-
-
-
-!!8.10 hi86@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de with SPACE
-
-
-
-SPACE-board, 8MB RAM, S3 805 1MB DRAM PCI
-260MB Seagate IDE-hard disk because of lack of
-NCR53c810-Driver, .99pl15d, does seem to work well.
-
-
-
-
-!!8.11 grif@cs.ucr.edu with INTEL
-
-
-
-17 machines running a 60Mhz-i586 on
-Intel-Premier-PCI-Board
-
-
-
-
-!!8.12 Jermoe Meyers (jeromem@amiserv.xnet.com) with Intel Premiere
-
-
-
-
-
-
-Motherboard - Intel Premiere Plato-babyAT 90mhz with Buslogic bt946c
-w/4.86 mcode w/4.22 autoSCSI firmware, (note, mine came with 4.80
-mcode and 4.17 autoSCSI firmware. (interrupt pins A,B,C conform to
-respective PCI slots!) ATI Xpression (Mach64) - using driver from
-sunsite, (running !AcerView 56L monitor).
-
-
-The motherboard has 4 IDE drives, Linux (Slackware 2.) sees
-the first two and everything on the Buslogic as it
-emulates an adaptec 1542. Uh, yes, Dos sees them all.
-Buslogic is VERY accomodating in regards to shipping
-upgraded chips (you will have to know how to change
-PLCC (plastic leaded chip carrier) chips, 3 of them.
-Though, don't let that scare you :-) it's not that tough.
-Get a low end PLCC removal tool, and your in business.
-You also might want to "flash upgrade your system bios from
-Intel's IPAN BBS, a trivial process. Whats even more
-interesting is I also have a Sound Blaster SCSI-2 running
-a scsi CDROM drive off it's adaptech 1522 onboard controller.
-So thats 4 IDE drives (2 under Linux) and 2 SCSI-2 controllers.
-
-
-
-I hope this helps others who are struggling with PCI technology use Linux!
-Jerry (jeromem@xnet.com)
-
-
-
-
-!!8.13 Timothy Demarest (demarest@rerf.or.jp) Intel Plato Premiere II
-
-
-
-My system is configured as follows: 16Mb 60ns RAM, 3Com Etherlink-III
-53C809 ethernet card (using 10base2), ATI Mach 64 2Mb VRAM, Toshiba 2x
-SCSI CDROM, NCR 53c810 PCI SCSI, Syquest 3270 270Mb Cartridge Drive,
-Viewsonic 17 monitor, Pentium-90 (FDIV Bug Free). Running Slackware
-2.1., Kernel 1.2., with other misc patches/upgrades.
-
-
-Everything is functioning flawlessly. I dont recommend the Syquest
-drives. I have used the 3105 and the 3270 and both a very, very
-fragile. Also, the cartridges are easily damaged and I have had
-frequent problems with them. I am in the process of looking for
-alternative removable storage (MO, Zip, Minidisc, etc).
-
-
-Some information you might need:
-
-
-
-
-!Flash Bios upgrades
-
-
-Flash Bios updates can be ftp'd from
-wuarchive.wustl.edu:/pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS/plato. The current version is
-1.00.12.AX1. The BIOS upgrades *must* be done in order. 1.00.03.AZ1
-to 1.00.06.AX1 to 1.00.08.AX1 to 1.00.10.AX1 to 1.00.12.AX1. The Flash
-BIOS updates can also be downloaded from the Intel BBS. I do not have
-that number right now.
-
-
-
-
-!NCR 53c810 BIOSless PCI SCSI
-
-
-If you are using an NCR 53c810 BIOSless PCI SCSI card in the
-Plato, you may have trouble getting the card to be recognized. I had
-to change one of the jumpers on the NCR card: the jumper that
-controls whether there is 1 or 2 NCR SCSI cards in your system must be
-set to "2". I dont know why, but this is how I got it to work. The
-other jumper controls the INT setting (A,B,C,D). I left mine at A
-(the default).
-
-
-
-
-!apart from that - plug and play!
-
-
-There are no settings in the motherboard BIOS for setting the NCR
-53c810. Dont worry - once the card is jumpered correctly, it will be
-recognized! So much for PCI Plug-n-Play!
-
-
-
-
-!!8.14 heinrich@zsv.gmd.de with ASUS
-
-
-
-ASUS-PCI-Board (SP3) having:
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-* -- Asus PCI-Board with AMD 486/dx2-66 and 16M RAM
-*
-
-* -- Fujitsu 2196ESA 1G SCSI-II
-*
-
-* -- Future Domain 850MEX Controller (cheap-SCSI-Controller, almost
-a clone to Seagate's ST01... want's to use ncr53c810 as soon as the
-driver comes out
-*
-
-* -- ATI Graphics Ultra (the older one with Mach-8 Chip, ISA-Bus)
-*
-
-* -- Slackware 1.1.1
-*
-
-
-
-He just exchanged the boards, plugged his cards in, connected
-the cables, and it worked perfect. He does not use any
-PCI-Cards yet, though.
-
-
-
-
-!!8.15 CARSTEN@AWORLD.aworld.de with ASUS
-
-
-
-ASUS-PCI-Board with 486DX66/2,
-miro-crystal 8s PCI driven by the S3-drivers of
-XFree86-2., using the onboard SCSI-Chip. No problems with
-compatibility at all.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-!!8.16 Lars Heinemann (lars@uni-paderborn.de) with ASUS
-
-
-
-ASUS PCI/I-486SP3 Motherboard w/ 486DX2/66 and 16M RAM (2x8),
-miroChrystal 8S/PCI (1MB) S3, Soundblaster PRO, Adaptec 1542b (3.20
-ROM) SCSI host adapter with two hard disks (Fujitsu M2694ESA u.
-Quantum LPS52) and a QIC-150 Streamer attached.
-No problems at all!
-
-
-
-
-!!8.17 Ruediger.Funck@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE with ASUS
-
-
-
-ASUS PCI/I-486SP3 / i486DX2-66 / 8 MB PS/2 70 ns
-BIOS: Award v 4.50
-CPU TO DRAM write buffer: enabled
-CPU TO PCI write buffer: enabled
-PCI TO DRAM write buffer: disabled, unchangeable
-CPU TO PCI burst write: enabled
-Miro Crystal 8s PCI - S3 P86C805 - 1MB DRAM
-
-
-Quantum LPS 540S SCSI-Harddisk on NCR53c810-controller.
-
-
-
-
-!!8.18 robert logan (rl@de-montfort.ac.uk with GW/2000)
-
-
-
-
-
-
-Gateway 2000 4DX2-66P
-16 Megs RAM,
-PCI ATI AX0 2MB DRAM (ATI GUP).
-WD 2540 Hard Disk (528 Megs)
-!CrystalScan 1776LE 17inch. (Runs up to 1280x1024)
-Slackware 1.1.2 (.99pl15f)
-
-
-It is giving no problems. He uses SLIP for networking and an
-Orchid-Soundwave-32 for niceties, awaiting the NCR-Driver.
-The only problem he has is that the IDE-Drive could be much faster
-on the PCI-IDE. It is one of the new Western Digital fast drives
-and in DOS/WfW it absolutely screams - on Linux it is just as slow as
-a good IDE-Drive.
-
-
-
-
-!!8.19 archie@CS.Berkeley.EDU and his friend use ASUS
-
-
-
-Archie and his friend have rather similar configurations:
-
-
-
-
-
-* ASUS PCI-SP3 board (4 ISA, 3 PCI)
-*
-
-* Intel 486DX2/66
-*
-
-* Genoa Phantom 8900PCI card (friend: Tseng 3000/W32i chipset)
-*
-
-* Maxtor 345 MB IDE hard drive
-*
-
-* Supra 14.4 internal modem
-*
-
-* !ViewSonic 6e monitor (Archie)
-*
-
-* NEC Multisync 4fge (friend)
-*
-
-* Slackware 1.2.
-*
-
-
-
-The onboard-SCSI is disabled. First there were problems with
-the IDE-drive: ``on the board there's a
-jumper which selects whether IRQ14 comes from the ISA bus or
-the PCI bus. The manual has an example where they show
-connecting it to PCI INT-A. Well, we did that just like the
-example... but then later our IDE drive would not work (the
-IDE controller is on board). Had to take it back. The guys
-at NCA were puzzled, then traced it back to this jumper. I
-guess the IDE controller uses IRQ14 or something? That's not
-documented anywhere in the manual. Other than that, seems to
-be kicking ass nicely now. Running X, modeming, etc. (for the
-Supra you have to explicitly tell the kernel that the COM port
-has a 16550A using setserial (in Slackware /etc/rc.d/rc.serial))''.
-
-
-
-
-!!8.20 Michael Will with ASUS-SP3 486 (the old one)
-
-
-
-
-
-
-used the following:
-
-
-
-
-
-* ASUS PCI-SP3-Board with 486dx2/66 and 16M RAM
-*
-
-* NCR53c810-SCSI-II chip driving a 1GB-Seagate-SCSI-II disk and a Wangtec-tape
-*
-
-* ATI-GUP PCI Mach32 Graphics card with 2M VRAM running perfectly
-with XFree86(tm)-3.1 8bpp and 16bpp
-*
-
-* Linux kernel 1.1.69
-*
-
-
-
-It runs perfectly and I am content with the speed, the ATI-GUP-PCI
-(Mach32) does not give as good benchmarks as expected, though. Since I
-got the money by now, I got me an ASUS-SP4 with P90 which gives me
-better throughput on Mach32-PCI...
-If I had even more money I'd get me another 16M of RAM and a
-Mach64-PCI with 4M RAM, though... I still keep on dreaming :-)
-
-
-
-
-!!8.21 Mike Frisch (mfrisch@saturn.tlug.org) Giga-Byte 486IM
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-* Motherboard: Giga-Byte 486IM
-*
-
-* Configuration: 4 ISA slots (2 double as VLB) and 4 PCI slots
-*
-
-* CPU: Intel 486DX/33
-*
-
-* BIOS: Award 4.50G
-*
-
-* PCI EIDE Disk Controller: Giga-Byte GA-107 (CMD 640x PCI
-Multi-I/O)
-*
-
-* PCI Video card: ATI Graphics eXpression PCI 2MB DRAM
-*
-
-* Linux Kernel: 1.2.9
-*
-
-* Linux Dist'n: Highly modified Slackware 2.2.
-*
-
-
-
-I have been running this board 24 hours a day for the past 5-6
-months. It has worked flawlessly for me under DOS/Windows, OS/2 Warp,
-and Linux (with Linux being run usually 24 hours a day).
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-!!8.22 Karl Keyte (kkeyte@esoc.bitnet) Gigabyte GA586 Pentium
-
-
-
-
-
-
-* PCI/EISA Board Gigabyte GA586-ID 90MHz Pentium (dual processor, one fitted)
-*
-
-* 32M RAM
-*
-
-* SCSI - no scsi-NCR-chip on-board, using Adaptec 1542C,
-*
-
-* PCI ATI GUP 2M VRAM
-*
-
-* Adaptec 1742 EISA SCSI controller
-*
-
-* Soundblaster 16
-*
-
-* usual I/O
-*
-
-
-
-
-
-
-Everything under DOS AND Linux works perfectly. No problem whatsoever.
-A VERY fast machine! BYTE Unix benchmarks place it about the same as
-a Sun SuperSPARC-20 running Solaris 2.3. The PC is faster for integer
-arithmetic and process stuff (including context switching). The SPARC
-is faster for floating point and one of the disk benchmarks.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-!!8.23 kenf@clark.net with G/W 2000
-
-
-
-He uses a Gateway 2000 with no problems, except
-the soundcard (which one?). He is trading it in for a genuine
-soundblaster in hopes that will help.
-
-
-
-
-!!8.24 Joerg Wedeck (jw@peanuts.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de) / ESCOM
-
-
-
-originaly buyed a 486 DX2/66 from ESCOM (which board?) with onboard IDE and
-without (!) onboard NCR-SCSI-chip. ISA-adaptec 1542cf
-scsi-controller instead spea v7 mercury lite (s3, PCI, 1MB),
-ISA-Soundblaster-16, mitsumi-cdrom (the slower one).
-Everything except the archive-streamer works with no problems.
-The spea-v7 works perfectly since XFree86-2.1
-
-
-He abandoned the Intel-board in favour of an ASUS-SP3-g and has some
-problems with PCI-to-Memory burstmode which is crashing only on Linux,
-"looking like a deadlock in the swapper". If you have any information
-on this, please eMail the maintainer of the PCI-HOWTO.
-
-
-After turning off the PCI-to-Memory posting feature it just works
-perfect.
-
-
-Rather than sending him mail please read his http-homepage at
-"http://wsiserv.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/ jw" where he keeps
-information about his PCI-system, too.
-
-
-
-
-!!8.25 Ulrich Teichert / ASUS
-
-
-
-
-
-
-ASUS-PCI board with AMD486dx40
-(but actually running at 33Mhz?!)
-His ISA-ET3000 Optima 1024A ISA works nice. No problems with
-Quantum540S SCSI Harddisk attached to the onboard NCR53c810.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-----
-
-!!9. Reports of problems
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-!!9.1 Compaq PCI systems, especially Presarios
-
-
-
-
-
-
-Patrick Yaner (p_yaner@eos.ncsu.edu) reported a Compaq-speciality to
-me. It seems they are mapping the PCI BIOS data area to an obscure
-area of memory, one that Linux (or OS2) cannot access. It can usually
-find it, but it can't get in, and gives a message on startup
-(something like "pcibios_init: entry in high memory area, unable to
-access"). Although this is alright with the display (which is on the
-PCI bus) and the IDE controller (also PCI), it means any other PCI
-devices -- such as an Ethernet card -- cannot be detected by Linux.
-
-
-Compaq offers a driver for DOS at
-ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/softpaq/Drivers/SP1116.ZIP
-
-
-but using this with linux would mean using the program that boots linux from
-DOS, instead of LILO. Note that Compaq occasionally updates the software in
-this archive, so the file ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/softpaq/allfiles.html
-(also available as allfiles.txt) might be handy in checking to see that they
-haven't upgraded.
-
-
-Oddly, this information can also be found in the SCSI HOWTO, although
-the Pressarios come with IDE built in.
-
-
-
-
-!!9.2 VLSI Wildcat PCI chipset like in Zeos P120 box
-
-
-
-
-
-
-Paul Bame (bame@sde.hp.com) reported:
-
-
-The Wildcat PCI chipset works fine in late 1.3 and all 2.0 kernels.
-
-
-
-
-!!9.3 dmarples@comms.eee.strathclyde.ac.uk G/W 2000
-
-
-
-
-
-
-Gateway 2000
-G/W 2000 4DX2/66 PCI
-ATI-Graphics-Ultra-Pro
-IDE of indeterminate make
-
-
-It works well - only the IDE-Card runs in
-ISA-compatibility-mode, and works a lot faster when switched
-into PCI-Mode by a DOS-program... thus it's not that fast in Linux,
-and a patch would be nice.
-
-
-
-
-!!9.4 cip574@wpax01.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Frank Hofmann) / ASUS
-
-
-
-
-
-
-He uses the ASUS-board with 16MB-RAM, ISA-based S3/928, and
-the onboard-IDE-controller with a Seagate ST4550A harddisk. He's had
-no trouble with the newer Linux-kernels.
-
-
-His problem:
-
-using X, my mouse is not responding the
-way I was used to before. It's sometimes behind movement and
-makes jumps if moved quickly. I think this was discussed In a Linux
-newsgroup before (I don't know which one) and is due to the use
-of 16550 serial chips for the onboard serial interfaces. After
-two weeks, I got used to it :-)
-
-
-
-Reducing the threshold of the 16550 should help. There should be a patch to
-setserial available somewhere, but I do not know where.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-!!9.5 axel@avalanche.cs.tu-berlin.de (Axel Mahler) / ASUS
-
-
-
-
-
-
-ASUS PCI/I-486SP3 Motherboard (Award BIOS 4.50), 16 MB RAM
-the on-Board NCR Chip is disabled,
-he had the Genoa Phantom/W32 2MB for PCI and a
-Adaptec AHA-1542CF (BIOS v2.01) connected to:
-
-
-* an IBM 1.05 GB Harddisk
-*
-
-* a Toshiba CD-ROM (XM4101-B)
-*
-
-* a HP DAT-Streamer (2GB)
-*
-
-
-
-when creating the filesystems, 'mke2fs' (.4, v. 1.11.93)
-hung and installation was impossible. After replacing the Genoa
-Phantom/W32 2MB PCI with an ELSA Winner 1000 2MB PCI it worked perfectly.
-He tested it with an old Eizo VGA-ISA and it worked as well, so the
-problem was in the Genoa-PCI-card.
-
-
-
-
-!!9.6 Frank Strauss (strauss@dagoba.escape.de) / ASUS
-
-
-
-ASUS SP3 Board i486DX2/66
-NCR53c810 disabled
-Adaptec 1542B in ISA Slot with 2 hard drives (200MB Maxtor,
-420MB Fijutsu), !SyQuest 88MB and Tandberg Streamer
-ELSA Winner 1000 PCI, 1MB-VRAM
-Soundblaster Pro in ISA Slot at IRQ 5
-Onboard IDE disabled
-Onboard serial, parallel, FD enabled
-
-
-After a reset, the machine sometimes 'hangs' (soft and
-hard-reset the same) - this is probably not related to the
-Adaptec and the Soundcard, because even without these the
-system sometimes fails to come up. But if it runs, (and the
-ELSA-WINNER-1000-PCI-message appears) it runs ok.
-
-
-The two serial ports are detected as 16550 as they should,
-but at some mailbox-sessions there was heavy data-loss at
-V42bis... The problem seems to be in the hardware...
-
-
-
-
-
-CPU>-PCI-Burst seems to work well with DOS/MS-Windows
-
-
-CPU->PCI-Burst does not work properly with linux0.99p15,
-Messing up when switching the virtual-consoles,
-crashing completely when calling big apps like ghostview, or
-xdvi, leaving the SCSI-LED on (!).
-
-
-(I suspect these apps would be using a lot of CPU->PCI-burst
-because of the big heap of data to transmit to the
-PCI-Winner-1000)
-
-
-After disabling CPU->PCI-Burst, it works well, the
-Winner-1000 at 1152x846 (not much font cache with 1MB) does
-93k xstones. !OpaqueMove with twm is more than just
-endureable :-)
-
-
-He has got a SATURN.EXE which he loads under DOS before
-starting Linux, helping to turn on burst without hangs...
-
-
-Someone stated that these problems might go away when turning off
-"sync negotiation" on the Adaptec - I do not know if this is
-possible with the adaptec1542B too? But I guess so.
-
-
-With CPU->PCI-Burst it yielded 95k xstones, so he considers it
-as not too grave to do without. His only problem is that he
-would like to run his Winner-1000 at 1152x900 which fails
-because it seems to take any x-resolution higher than
-1024pixels as a 1280pixel-resolution, thus wasting a lot end
-resulting in a y-resolution of 816pixels... but this is
-probably no PCI-related problem. It should have gone away with
-XFree86-2.1
-
-
-
-
-!!9.7 egooch@mc.com / ASUS
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-* BOARD ASUS PCI/I-486 SP3 RAM: 16MB (4x4M-SIMM)
-*
-
-* CPU 486DX33 CPU
-*
-
-* BIOS Ver. 4.50 (12/30/93)
-*
-
-* Floppy Two floppy drives (1.2 and 1.44), using ASUS on-board
-floppy controller
-*
-
-* SCSI tried both WD7000 SCSI controller and Adaptec 1542CF
-and worked.
-*
-
-* Two SCSI 320M hard drives
-*
-
-* SCSI NEC84 CDROM drive
-*
-
-* SCSI QIC150 Archive tape drive
-*
-
-* Video - Tseng ET4000 ISA graphics card
-*
-
-* Sound PAS16 sound card
-*
-
-* Printer attached to on-board ASUS parallel port
-*
-
-
-
-He has nothing in the PCI-Slots yet, but wants to buy a
-PCI-Video-Card, currently uses WD7000 SCSI controller but will
-switch to the NCR-Chip onboard as soon as the driver is out.
-
-
-Everything works perfectly - the first serial port which
-has a 14.4K-Modem attached does hang occasionally when
-reconnecting with the modem after having used it previously.
-He says that would not be unique to ASUS but rather a bug in
-the SMC-LSI device with its 16550UART. The logitech-serial-mouse
-on the second port works fine. Setting down the threshold of the
-16550 for the mouseport would definitely help, one does seem to need
-a special patched setserial for that? I have not got the information
-yet, please contact me if you know more!
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-!!9.8 Stefan.Dalibor@informatik.uni-erlangen.de / !GigaByte
-
-
-
-
-
-
-* Board - GA-486iS from Gigabyte w/ 256Kb 2L-Cache, i486-DX2
-*
-
-* Bios - AMI, 93/8
-*
-
-* SCSI - no scsi-NCR-chip on-board, using Adaptec 1542C,
-*
-
-* Video - ELSA Winner 1000
-*
-
-* Linux .99pl14 + SCSI-Clustering-Patches / Slackware 1.1.1
-*
-
-
-
-
-
-
-All seems to go well, but he has not tried neither networking,
-printing or a streamer yet. Before applying the clustering-
-patches he had some problems with hangs triggered by "find",
-but this no longer is the case - perhaps it was an older
-kernel-bug.
-
-
-The ELSA-Winner-1000 sometimes hangs, with very strange patterns on
-the screen resolved only by rebooting... The dealer has told him
-it was a bug in the ELSA-Card, but the manufacturer claims it
-had solved the problem. The bug is not reproducible so he does
-not plan to take any action at the moment.
-
-
-All in all the machine seems to work very well under heavy
-text processing (emacs, LaTeX, xfig, ghostview) usage.
-Interaction is surprisingly responsive, little difference between
-it and the 3-4X as expensive Sun he works on...
-
-
-CPU->PCI-Burst is still disabled because the bios does not
-support the PCI-things well?
-
-
-A problem with his new modem (v32 terbo) arose: it looses characters.
-Especially when using SLIP it complains a lot about RX and TX errors.
-As soon as he runs X it gets unusable. He said he activated FIFO and
-RTS/CTS with stty, but to no avail...
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-!!9.9 Steve Durst (sdurst@burns.rl.af.mil) with UMC 8500 mainboard
-
-
-
-Running Linux 1.2.12 on the UMC8500-100Mhz motherboard with the
-dreaded CMD PCIO640B (E)IDE controller, when booting the screen
-wiggles a few seconds, as if the Diamond Stealth64-DRAM (S3 864)
-has to warm up first, but he can live with that.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-!!9.10 Tom Drabenstott (tldraben@Teleport.Com) with Comtrade / PCI48IX
-
-
-
-
-
-
-PCI48IX Motherboard Rev. 1.. Made by ??? documentation
-copyrighted by "exrc". The BIOS says not very much about PCI.
-
-
-His E-315E Super IDE UMC (863+865) ISA-Controller-card does
-have problems. (It is a multifunction controller-card). It
-seems to work well under DOS/OS2 but not under Linux.
-
-
-
-----
-
-!!10. General tips for PCI-Motherboard + Linux NCR PCI SCSI
-
-
-
-
-
-This was compiled by Angelo Haritsis (ah@doc.ic.ac.uk) from various
-people's postings:
-
-
-
-
-!!10.1 DON'Ts:
-
-
-
-
-
-
-Do *NOT* go for combination VLB/PCI motherboards. They usually have
-a lot of problems. Get a plain PCI version (with ISA slots as well
-of course).
-A lot of bad things have been heard about OPTI chipset PCI motherboards.
-Someone hints: "Avoid the OPTi (82C596/82C597/82C822) chipset based
-motherboards like the TMC PCI54PV".
-
-
-(I know of at least one person having no problems with his TMC PCI54PV
-motherboard. He just had to put the NCR53c810 addonboard into slot-A
-which is the only slot capable of busmastering as it seems.)
-
-
-Rumours say that Intel chipset PCI motherboards will have problems
-with more than one bus-mastering PCI board. I have not tried this one
-yet on mine and have nothing to suggest. I also heard that the
-Saturn II chipset is problematic, but this is the one I use
-and it is perfectly ok! Advice: Try to negotiate a 1-2 week money
-back agreement with your supplier, in case the motherboard
-you get has problems with the use you plan for it.
-
-
-
-
-!!10.2 SIMM slots
-
-
-
-
-
-
-Go for 72-pin only SIMMs for speed:
-Some (all?) of the mainboards which take 30 pin SIMMs use a 32 bit
-main memory interface, and will be significantly slower than the
-Intel based boards which all use a 64 bit or permantly interleaved
-memory interface. You might want to keep that in mind.
-
-
-
-
-!!10.3 Praised PCI Pentium motherboard
-
-
-
-
-
-
-The P90 Intel motherboard with the Intel
-Premiere II chipset (aka Plato). Get the latest BIOS which has
-concatenated NCR scsi BIOS 3.04.00. Otherwise DOS won't see your
-scsi disk(s) if you use a BIOS-less 53c810 based controller.
-NCR SCSI BIOS exists in the AMI BIOS of the plato after version 1.00.08
-(or maybe verion 1.00.06). This BIOS is FLASH upgradeable so you should be
-able to get the upgrade on a floppy from your supplier. The current
-version is 1.00.10 and has all early problems fixed.
-
-
-(Bios files should be available at ftp.demon.co.uk:/pub/ibmpc/intel,
-but I did not check that myself. the Autor.)
-
-
-
-
-!!10.4 irq-lines
-
-
-
-
-
-
-The value in the interrupt line PCI configuration register is usually
-set manually (for compatability with legacy ISA boards) in the
-extended CMOS setup screens on a per-slot or per-device basis.
-Older PCI mainboards also force you to set jumpers for each
-PCI slot/device which select how PCI INTA and perhaps INTB, INTC,
-and INTD are mapped to an 8259 IRQ line, Obviously, if
-these jumpers exist on your board, they must match the
-settings in the extended CMOS setup.
-Also note that some boards (notably Viglens) have silkscreens
-and instruction manuals which disagree with the wiring, and some
-experimentation may be in order.
-
-
-
-
-!!10.5 Info about the different NCR 8xx family scsi chips:
-
-
-
-
-
-
-All NCR 8XX Chips are dircet connect PCI bus mastering devices, that
-have no preformance difference wether on motherboard or add in
-option card. All devices comply with PCI 2.0 Specification, and can
-burst 32 bit data at the full 33 MHz (133Mbytes/Sec)
-
-
-
-
-!53C810
-
-
-53C810 = 8 bit Fast SCSI-2 (10 MB/Sec) Single ended only
-Requires Integrated Mother board BIOS 100 pin Quad Flat Pack (PQFP)
-Worlds first PCI SCSI Chip, Volumes make it the most inexpensive.
-
-
-
-
-!53C815
-
-
-53C815 = 8 bit Fast SCSI-2 (10 MB/Sec) Single Ended only
-Support ROM BIOS interface, which makes it ideal for add-in
-card Designs. 128 Pin QFP
-
-
-
-
-!53C825
-
-
-53C825 = 8 bit Fast SCSI-2, Single ended or Differential
-16 bit Fast SCSI-2 (20 MB/Sec), Single ended or Differetial
-Also has support for external Rom, making it a good
-candidate for add in cards. 160 pin QFP
-Not supported by linux yet. (See section below on news
-about the 825). Must have devices with wide
-or differential scsi to use these features.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-!!10.6 future of 53c8xx
-
-
-
-There are 4 new devices planned for announcement late this year and into
-early next year. Footprint compitible with 810 and 825 with some new
-features.
-
-
-All the Chips require a BIOS in DOS/Intel applications. The 810 is
-the only chip that needs it resident on the motherboard. Latest NCR
-SCSI BIOS version: 3.04.00
-The bios supports disks >1GB, indeed up to 8G under MS-LOSS.
-
-
-
-
-!!10.7 Performance of the 53c810
-
-
-
-C't magazine's DOS benchmarks showed that it was significantly
-faster than the Buslogic BT-946, one user noted a 10-15% performance
-increase versus an Adaptec 2940, and with a very fast disk it may be
-2.5X as fast as an Adaptec 1540.
-
-
-
-
-!!10.8 News about NCR53c825 support
-
-
-
-works. period.
-
-
-
-
-!!10.9 Frederic POTTER (Frederic.Potter@masi.ibp.fr) about Pentium+NCR+Strap_bug
-
-
-
-On some Intel Plato board, the NCR bios doesn't recognize the board,
-because it needs to see the board as a "secondary SCSI controller",
-and because on most SCSI board the jumper to select between primary/secondary
-has been ironed to primary (to spare 1 cent, presumably).
-
-
-Solution:
-
-near the NCR chip, they are 3 via ( kind of holes ) with a strap like
-that
-O--O O
-this mean primary is selected as default setting. For the Plato Intel
-Mainboard, it should be like that
-O O--O
-The best solution is to get rid of the strap and to put a 2 position
-jumper instead.
-
-
-
-
-
-!!10.10 PCIprobe in the latest Linux Kernels by Frederic Potter
-
-
-
-
-
-
-Frederic Potter has added a PCI-Probe into the latest kernels. If you
-do a "cat /proc/pci" it should list all your cards. If you own cards
-which are not properly recogniced, please contact him via mail as
-"Frederic.Potter@masi.ibp.fr".
-
-
-See arch/i386/kernel/bios32.c and include/linux/pci.h in the kernel
-source for more information on PCI-Probe-Stuff.
-
-
-
-
-!!10.11 Other PCI Devices
-
-
-
-What other PCI-cards are supported? Apart from various graphicscards, I would
-like to know about other cards like ethernet, framegrabber, or the TSET boards
-Cyclades is about to beta-test at the moment:
-
-
-
-
-!Cyclades: a 16-port PCI RISC-based multiport card.
-
-
-
-
-
-The product is called Cyclom-Ye, and has the following characteristics:
-
-
-
-
-
-* PCI host card based on the PLX chip-set. This host card supports 8 to
-32 serial ports, utilizing 8 or 16-port external boxes.
-*
-
-* SCSI II cable.
-*
-
-* 8 or 16-port external boxes with RJ45 or DB25 connectors (your choice).
-You can start with 8 ports and expand to 32, by just adding more
-boxes. Each external box contains 2 or 4 CD-1400 RISC Serial controllers
-(each CD-1400 controls 4 serial ports).
-*
-
-* Up to 4 Host cards can be installed in the PC system, allowing a maximum
-of 128 serial ports per system.
-*
-
-
-
-The product is being in the beta-test phase at July the 26th, 1995, and should be
-available by Octobre or something. eMail them at sales@cyclades.com.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-----
-
-!!11. Conclusion
-
-
-
-
-
-If you have some moneny to put into your machine, you'd be well off
-with a Pentium90, ASUS-SP4, which is what I use at the moment. If you
-can afford 32M RAM that would be much better than 16M RAM.
-
-
-Real soon now the upcoming standard will be the Triton Chipset with
-support for special SIMMS called EDODRAM, and SRAM. Both will be more
-expensive than PS2-RAM, and at the time of writing (28-June-1995) SRAM is not
-available. While EDO-DRAM is more expensive, this is not because of the
-production costs, they are said to be the same.
-
-
-For a highperformance system I would still choose an ASUS-TP4/XE with EDO-DRAM,
-but if you do not need to use it at the moment, I d rather wait some more.
-
-
-For Graphic-boards I'd say the best cheap board fitting perfectly on a
-good Multisync-15 like the Samsung !SyncMaster 15Gli, is the SPEA V7 Mirage
-P64 with Trio64 Chipset and 2M DRAM. For more sophisticated Display
-like the Iiyama-IDEK 8617A-T I think the PCI Mach64 ATI-GUP-Turbo
-(not the cheaper GUP-Turbo-Windows) would be a
-good choice, with 4M RAM you can have truecolor in higher
-resolutions. It is well supported in the XFree86(tm)-3.1.1, and there
-are commercial X-Servers available of which I'd recommend
-Accelerated/X by Roell, which supports the Mach64 very well and fast.
-
-
-For SCSI I'd take the DPT rather than the (much cheaper and very fast)
-NCR53c810 in case you plan to use SCSI-Tapes a lot. The NCR53c810
-driver on Linux does lack disconnect/reconnect support, thus blocking
-the SCSIbus on operations like "mt rewind", "mt fsf" etc. It bears a
-performance penalty on tar-operations - but check out Drews new alpha
-drivers before making a decision, perhaps it does solve all the problems.
-
-
-For building servers, the DPT
-would be the controller of choice anyway because of all the nifty
-hardware cache (with elevator sorting on accesses, so cache it is not a silly
-thing even in a Linux enviroment where the OS does the caching) and RAID-Support
-up to raid level 5.
-
-
-If you do not want to spend that much money on computer equipment
-(e.g.: you are having a life) you might go for an ASUS-SP3-SiS with
-AMD-DX2/66 or DX4/100. The SPEA V7 Mirage P64 PCI with 2M DRAM would
-be a good choice, since it uses the Trio64 S3 Chip, which is well
-supported by XFree86(tm)-3.1.1, quite cheap to buy and fast, too.
-
-
-Another fine card since XFree86(tm)-3.1 is the fast and cheap et4000/w32-PCI-card.
-
-
-
-----
-
-!!12. Thanks
-
-
-I want to thank the following people for supporting this document:
-
-
-* David Lesher (wb8foz@netcom.com) for extensive help with the english language
-*
-
-* Nathanael MAKAREVITCH (nat@nataa.frmug.fr.net) for translating into french
-*
-
-* Jun Morimoto (morimoto@lab.imagica.co.jp) for translating into japanese
-*
-
-* Marco Melgazzi (marco@vcldec1.polito.it) for translating into italian
-*
-
-* Donald Becker (becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov) for ethernet-informations
-*
-
-* Drew Eckhardt (drew@kinglear.cs.Colorado.EDU) for
-SCSI-informations
-*
-
-* Zhahai Stewart (zhahai@hisys.com) for help with the intro section
-*
-
-
-
-and many more peole adding information mostly by mail and by posts,
-some of them will be named here:
-
-CARSTEN@AWORLD.aworld.de,
-dmarples@comms.eee.strathclyde.ac.uk,
-drew@kinglear.cs.Colorado.EDU (Working at the PCI-NCR53c810-Driver),
-duncan@spd.eee.strathclyde.ac.uk,
-fm3@irz.inf.tu-dresden.de,
-grif@ucrengr.ucr.edu,
-heinrich@zsv.gmd.de,
-hm@ix.de (iX-Magazine),
-hm@seneca.ix.de,
-kebsch.pad@sni.de,
-kenf@clark.net,
-matthias@penthouse.boerde.de,
-ortloff@omega.informatik.uni-dortmund.de,
-preberle@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de,
-rob@me62.lbl.gov,
-rsi@netcom.com,
-sk001sp@unidui.uni-duisburg.de,
-strauss@dagoba.escape.de,
-strauss@dagoba.priconet.de,
-hi86@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de,
-Ulrich Teichert, krypton@netzservice.de,
-Stefan.Dalibor@informatik.uni-erlangen.de,
-tldraben@teleport.com
-mundkur@eagle.ece.uci.edu,
-ooch@jericho.mc.com,
-Gert Doering (gert@greenie.muc.de),
-James D. Levine (jdl@netcom.com),
-Georg von Below (gbelow@pmail.sams.ch),
-Jerome Meyers (jeromem@quake.xnet.com),
-Angelo Haritsis (ah@doc.ic.ac.uk),
-archie@CS.Berkeley.EDU and his friend kenf@clark.net.
-
-
-
-
-----
-
-!!13. copyright/legalese
-
-
-(c)opyright 1993,94,97,2001 by Michael Will - the GPL (Gnu Public License)
-applies. See last section about this.
-
-
-If you sell this HOWTO on a CD or in a book I would be happy to
-have a copy for reference.
-
-
-(Michael.Will@student.uni-tuebingen.de)
-
-
-Contact me, either via eMail or call +49-7071-889710.
-
-
-Trademarks are owned by their owners. There is no warranty on the
-information in this document.
-
-
-For german users I am offering tested, preinstalled / preconfigured
-and supported Linux-PCI-machines. Call me at 07071-889710
-
-
-
-----
-
-!!14. GPL - Gnu Public License
-
-
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-You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy, and
-you may at your option offer warranty protection in exchange for a fee.
-2. You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or any portion
-of it, thus forming a work based on the Program, and copy and
-distribute such modifications or work under the terms of Section 1
-above, provided that you also meet all of these conditions:
-a) You must cause the modified files to carry prominent notices
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-b) You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in
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-Appendix: How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
-If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest
-possible use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it
-free software which everyone can redistribute and change under these terms.
-To do so, attach the following notices to the program. It is safest
-to attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively
-convey the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least
-the "copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.
-<one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.>
-Copyright (C) 19yy (name of author)
-This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
-it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
-(at your option) any later version.
-This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
-GNU General Public License for more details.
-You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
-Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
-Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.
-If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this
-when it starts in an interactive mode:
-Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) 19yy name of author
-Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'.
-This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
-under certain conditions; type `show c' for details.
-The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show the appropriate
-parts of the General Public License. Of course, the commands you use may
-be called something other than `show w' and `show c'; they could even be
-mouse-clicks or menu items--whatever suits your program.
-You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your
-school, if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the program, if
-necessary. Here is a sample; alter the names:
-Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program
-`Gnomovision' (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker.
-(signature of Ty Coon), 1 April 1989
-Ty Coon, President of Vice
-This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into
-proprietary programs. If your program is a subroutine library, you may
-consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the
-library. If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Library General
-Public License instead of this License
.
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