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Linux PCI-HOWTO
by Michael Will,
Michael.Will@student.uni-tuebingen.de
v0.6h, 24 June 2001
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
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 1.0
7.10 IDeal PCI / PCI48X MB Rev 1.0
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
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
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
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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