From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 8 06:51:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA27216 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 06:51:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA27211 for ; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 06:51:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id XAA09869; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 23:47:23 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199604081417.XAA09869@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Asus PVI486SP3 and Adaptec 2940 compatibility To: mnewell@kaizen.net (Michael Newell) Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 23:47:23 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, cau@cc.gatech.edu, mc7953@mclink.it, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Michael Newell" at Apr 8, 96 09:45:20 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 [[