Linux PCI-HOWTO
by Michael Will,
michaelw@desaster.student.uni-tuebingen.de
v0.5f, July 1995
Information on what works with Linux and PCI-boards and what does not.
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 Future Domain TMC-3260 PCI SCSI
2.8 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:
4.
Pat Dowler (dowler@pt1B1106.FSH.UVic.CA) with ASUS SP3G
5.
confusion about saturn chipsets
6.
Video-Cards
7.
Ethernet Cards
8.
Motherboards
8.1 ASUS
8.2 Micronics P54i-90
8.3 SA486P AIO-II
8.4 Sirius SPACE
8.5 Gateway-2000
8.6 Intel-Premiere
8.7 DELL Poweredge SP4100 gbelow@pmail.sams.ch - successful
8.8 Comtrade Best Buy PCI / PCI48X MB Rev 1.0
8.9 IDeal PCI / PCI48X MB Rev 1.0
8.10 CMD Tech. PCI IDE / CSA-6400C
8.11 GA-486iS (Gigabyte)
8.12 GA-586-ID (Gigabyte) 90 Mhz Pentium PCI/EISA Board
8.13 ESCOM 486dx2/66 - which board?
8.14 J-Bond with i486dx2/66
8.15 super micro 011895 03:50 SUPER P54CI-PCI rev 1.3 (Opti)
9.
reports on success
9.1 Micronics P54i-90 (root@intellibase.gte.com)
9.2 Angelo Haritsis (ah@doc.ic.ac.uk) about SA486P AIO-II:
9.3 bill.foster@mccaw.com about his Micronics M5Pi
9.4 Simon Karpen (karpens@ncssm-server.ncssm.edu) with Micronics M54pi
9.5 Goerg von Below (gbelow@pmail.sams.ch) about DELL Poweredge
9.6 zenon@resonex.com about Gateway2000 P-66
9.7 James D. Levine (jdl@netcom.com) with Gateway2000
9.8 hi86@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de with SPACE
9.9 grif@cs.ucr.edu with INTEL
9.10 Jermoe Meyers (jeromem@amiserv.xnet.com) with Intel Premiere
9.11 Timothy Demarest (demarest@rerf.or.jp) Intel Plato Premiere II
9.12 heinrich@zsv.gmd.de with ASUS
9.13 CARSTEN@AWORLD.aworld.de with ASUS
9.14 Lars Heinemann (lars@uni-paderborn.de) with ASUS
9.15 Ruediger.Funck@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE with ASUS
9.16 robert logan (rl@de-montfort.ac.uk with GW/2000)
9.17 archie@CS.Berkeley.EDU and his friend use ASUS
9.18 Michael Will with ASUS-SP3 486 (the old one)
9.19 Mike Frisch (mfrisch@saturn.tlug.org) Giga-Byte 486IM
9.20 Karl Keyte (kkeyte@esoc.bitnet) Gigabyte GA586 Pentium
9.21 kenf@clark.net with G/W 2000
9.22 Joerg Wedeck (jw@peanuts.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de) / ESCOM
9.23 Ulrich Teichert / ASUS
10.
Reports of problems
10.1 hschmal@informatik.uni-rostock.de and SCSI-PCI-SC200
10.2 dmarples@comms.eee.strathclyde.ac.uk G/W 2000
10.3 cip574@wpax01.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Frank Hofmann) / ASUS
10.4 axel@avalanche.cs.tu-berlin.de (Axel Mahler) / ASUS
10.5 Frank Strauss (strauss@dagoba.escape.de) / ASUS
10.6 egooch@mc.com / ASUS
10.7 Stefan.Dalibor@informatik.uni-erlangen.de / GigaByte
10.8 Tom Drabenstott (tldraben@Teleport.Com) with Comtrade / PCI48IX
11.
General tips for PCI-Motherboard + Linux NCR PCI SCSI
11.1 DON'Ts:
11.2 SIMM slots
11.3 Praised PCI Pentium motherboard
11.4 irq-lines
11.5 Info about the different NCR 8xx family scsi chips:
11.6 future of 53c8xx
11.7 Performance of the 53c810
11.8 News about NCR53c825 support
11.9 Frederic POTTER (Frederic.Potter@masi.ibp.fr) about Pentium+NCR+Strap_bug
11.10 PCIprobe in the latest Linux Kernels by Frederic Potter
11.11 Other PCI Devices
12.
Conclusion
13.
Thanks
14.
copyright/legalese