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Linux PCI-HOWTO

by Michael Will, Michael.Will@student.uni-tuebingen.de

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