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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
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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