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Subject: Re: Asus PVI486SP3 and Adaptec 2940 compatibility
To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith)
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 15:54:45 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: cau@cc.gatech.edu, mc7953@mclink.it, questions@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <199604080639.QAA08948@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Apr 8, 96 04:09:58 pm
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> Carlos Ugarte stands accused of saying:
> > I have the same motherboard, and an Adaptec 1542CF.  There is a
> > problem with this board and DMA busmaster devices, which I think
> > the 2940 is (the 1542CF is a busmaster).  The problem is not
> 
> 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 a differend ASUS board (the P/I-P55TP4XE) and a 940W and it works 
beautifully.  I did have problems getting the BIOS to see the card and 
initialize it properly but that was fixed by telling the PnP setup in the 
PC's BIOS to set the 2940W's IRQ to a specific number (14 in my case).  

	-Amir