From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 8 06:46:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA27064 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 06:46:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dada.kaizen.net (dada.kaizen.net [206.27.236.38]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA27059 for ; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 06:46:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost by dada.kaizen.net via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/940406.SGI.AUTO) id JAA09531; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 09:45:24 -0400 Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 09:45:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Michael Newell To: Michael Smith cc: Carlos Ugarte , mc7953@mclink.it, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Asus PVI486SP3 and Adaptec 2940 compatibility In-Reply-To: <199604080639.QAA08948@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. > > The 2940 _may_ have one of the buggy firmware revisions that cause drama > with PnP motherboards; this should be checked with a call to Adaptec's > tech support. 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 weekend I swapped out the 1542 for a 2940 (what a nightmare THAT was - they don't use the same geometry remapping apparently; sigh...) and it's been running several hours now with no problems. 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 :-). Thanks, Mike