Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 23:47:23 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: mnewell@kaizen.net (Michael Newell) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, cau@cc.gatech.edu, mc7953@mclink.it, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Asus PVI486SP3 and Adaptec 2940 compatibility Message-ID: <199604081417.XAA09869@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.92.960408094001.7203H-100000@dada.kaizen.net> from "Michael Newell" at Apr 8, 96 09:45:20 am
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Michael Newell stands accused of saying: > > On Mon, 8 Apr 1996, Michael Smith wrote: > > > Don't confuse ISA busmasters and PCI busmasters. The 1542 is an ISA > > busmaster, and may have problems on the PVI486SP3 (I can't say, I've > > never tried). The 2940 is a PCI busmaster and I know for a fact > > that they work fine in that board. > > I have two Asus Pentium boards (P55TP4N). In my home machine I used an > Adaptec 1542 board for about a week with no ill effects; ran great. This The P55TP4N has _nothing_ whatsoever to do with the PVI486SP3. One is a Triton-based Pentium motherboard, the other is a SiS496/497-based '486 motherboard. > One thing I *DID* do was tell the Asus BIOS about all legacy cards that > use ISA interrupts - it's in the "PnP" setup I believe. Also make > *ABSOLUTELY SURE* your SCSI bus is properly terminated :-). Bus termination doesn't help much when the chipset or board implementation don't correctly handle busmaster DMS 8) > Mike -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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