Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 09:45:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Michael Newell <mnewell@kaizen.net> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: Carlos Ugarte <cau@cc.gatech.edu>, mc7953@mclink.it, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Asus PVI486SP3 and Adaptec 2940 compatibility Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.92.960408094001.7203H-100000@dada.kaizen.net> In-Reply-To: <199604080639.QAA08948@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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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
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