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<H2><A NAME="s8">8. reports on success </A></H2>
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<H2><A NAME="ss8.1">8.1 GigaByte GA486-AM with AMD Am5x86-133-WB @ 160MHz (40MHz PCI)</A>
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</H2>
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<P>GigaByte GA486-AM
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<LI> AMD Am5x86-133-WB @ 160MHz (40MHz PCI)</LI>
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<LI> BIOS as of 11/07/95 (Rev.A)</LI>
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<LI> 256KB 2nd level cache (15ns)</LI>
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<LI> 48MB RAM (Mixed 60/70ns)</LI>
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</UL>
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<P>Hercules Terminator 64/VIDEO (S3 765 or "Trio 64V+")
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<P>Sound Blaster 16
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<UL>
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<LI> Panasonic CR563 CD-ROM drive</LI>
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</UL>
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<P>Silicon 4Ser/3Par I/O
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<UL>
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<LI> Mouse</LI>
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<LI> Terminal</LI>
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<LI> Terminal</LI>
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<LI> Modem (14k4)</LI>
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<LI> HP Laserjet III</LI>
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</UL>
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<P>Mitsumi CD-ROM controller
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<UL>
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<LI> FX001D drive</LI>
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</UL>
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<P>Longshine 1MBit Floppy controller
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<UL>
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<LI> IOMega Tape Insider 250</LI>
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<LI> 3,5" Floppy</LI>
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<LI> 5,25" Floppy</LI>
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</UL>
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<P>No Network card, because the 4 ISA slots are full, and I don't have a
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PCI card.
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I (now) use kernel 2.0.22 with APM enabled, and the hard drives power
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down and up properly without panics.
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The system is 24hrs up a day and still running. Kernel compilation takes
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between 5 and 7 minutes, depending on options.
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<P>
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<H2><A NAME="ss8.2">8.2 California Graphics - Sunray II Pro </A>
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</H2>
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<P>Guido Trentalancia (guido@gulliver.unian.it) reported the California
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Graphics - Sunray II Pro with Triton chipset to work well with
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Pentium100, Hd: Conner cfs420a, Conner cfs210a, crunching numbers at
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147492 dhrystones/second.
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<P>
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<H2><A NAME="ss8.3">8.3 Micronics P54i-90 (root@intellibase.gte.com)</A>
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</H2>
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<P>
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<P>Pentium with 90Mhz, 32M RAM and 512K L2-cache. Works extremely well (a
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kernel recompile takes 10 minutes :-).
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<P>The board includes:
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<UL>
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<LI> UART - two 16550A high speed UARTS</LI>
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<LI> ECP - one enhanced parallel port</LI>
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<LI> Onboard IDE controller</LI>
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<LI> Onboard floppy controller</LI>
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</UL>
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<P>Pros: Currently, I'm using it with an Adaptec 1542CF and a 1G Seagate drive,
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No problems. Graphics is ATI Graphics Pro Turbo (PCI). Very fast. The
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serial ports can keep up with a TeleBit T3000 modem (38400) without overruns.
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Caching above 16M does occur. There are 3 banks of SIMM slots (2 SIMM's per
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bank), with each bank capable of 64M each (2 32M 72-pin SIMM's). Each bank
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must be filled completely to be used (I'm only using bank 0 with 2 16Mx72-pin
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SIMM's). The CPU socket is a ZIF type socket. The BIOS is Phoenix, FLASH
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type.
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<P>Drawbacks: RAM is expandable to 192M, but the L2 cache is maxed at
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512K. While the graphics are very fast, there is currently no XF86
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server for the Mach64 (well, actually there is, but it doesn't use
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any of the accelerator features; it's just an SVGA server). I don't
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know if the onboard IDE hard drive controller works; I'm prejudiced against
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a standard that won't allow my peripherals to operate across platforms, so
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I didn't buy an IDE disk; instead, I got a Seagate 31200N and a NEC 3Xi.
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<P>Mitch
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<H2><A NAME="ss8.4">8.4 Angelo Haritsis (ah@doc.ic.ac.uk) about SA486P AIO-II:</A>
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</H2>
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<P>The motherboard I eventually bought (in the UK) is one supporting
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486 SX/DX/DX2/DX4 chips. It is called SA486P AIO-II. Features include:
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<UL>
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<LI> Intel Saturn v2 chipset</LI>
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<LI> Phoenix BIOS (flash eprom option)</LI>
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<LI> NCR scsi BIOS v 3.04.00</LI>
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<LI> 256K 15ns cache (max 512) write back and write through</LI>
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<LI> 4 72-pin SIMM slots in 2 banks</LI>
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<LI> 3 PCI slots, 4 ISA</LI>
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<LI> On-board NCR 53c810 scsi controller</LI>
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<LI> On-board IDE / floppy / 2 x 16550A uarts / enhanced parallel</LI>
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</UL>
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<P>I bought it from a company (UK) called ICS, (note I have no
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connections whatsoever with the company, just a happy customer). I use a 486/DX2-66 CPU.
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<P>Before I had a VLB 486 m/board with a buslogic BT-445S controller that
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I was borrowing. I have 2 scsi devices: 1 barracuda 2.1GB ST12550N disk
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and a Wangtek 5525ES tape drive.
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I was expecting a lot of adventures by switching to the new motherboard,
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esp after hearing all these non-success stories on the net. To my
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surprise everything worked flawlessly on the 1st boot! (1.1.50). And it
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has been doing so for about a month now. I did not even have to repartition
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the disk: apparently the disk geometry bios translation of the 2
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controllers is the same.
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Linux has had no problems at all. SCSI is visibly much faster as well
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(sorry, I have no actual performance measurements).
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<P>The only problems (related to Drew's linux ncr53c7,810 scsi driver - thanks
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for the good work Drew!) are:
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<UL>
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<LI> no synchronous transfers are yet supported => performance hit</LI>
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<LI> disconnect/reconnect is disabled => disk scsi ops "hold" during certain
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slow scsi device opeartions (eg tape rewind)</LI>
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<LI> tagged queuing is not there (?) => performance hit</LI>
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</UL>
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<P>If you get Windows complainingg about 32-bit disk driver problems, just
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disable 32-bit disk access via Control Panel. This should not hurt
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performance. (What I did is remove the WDCTRL driver from my SYSTEM.INI).
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<P>All else is fine. I tried the serial ports with some dos/windows s/w
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and worked ok. The IDE/floppy work ok as well. I have not tried the parallel
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yet. The motherboard is quite fast and so far I am very pleased with the
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upgrade. I have not yet tried a PCI graphics board. I will later
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on. I am using an old ISA S3 which is fine at the moment.
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<P>PS: the NCR drivers in the 2.0.x kernels should have no problems of
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that kind anymore. please consult the SCSI-HOWTO for further and
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hopefully more uptodate information.
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<P>
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<H2><A NAME="ss8.5">8.5 bill.foster@mccaw.com about his Micronics M5Pi</A>
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</H2>
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<P>Micronics M5Pi motherboard with 60 MHz Pentium, PCI bus having the following components:
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<PRE>
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16Mb RAM/512k cache
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onboard IDE, parallel, 16550A UARTS
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2 X 340MB Maxtor IDE Hard Drives
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Soundblaster 16 SCSI-II
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Toshiba 3401B SCSI CD-ROM
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Archive Viper 525MB SCSI Tape Drive
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Viewsonic 17 monitor
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Cardex Challenger PCI video card (ET4000/W32P)
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A4-Tech Serial Mouse
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</PRE>
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<P>Everything works great, Slackware installation was very easy, I can run
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Quicken 7 for DOS under DOSEMU. I run X at 1152x900 resolution at
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67Hz.
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<H2><A NAME="ss8.6">8.6 Simon Karpen (karpens@ncssm-server.ncssm.edu) with Micronics M54pi</A>
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</H2>
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<P>I have had no problems with the above board, the on-board PCI IDE (hopefully
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soon will also have SCSI), and an ATI Mach32 (GUP) with 2MB of VRAM.
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<H2><A NAME="ss8.7">8.7 Goerg von Below (gbelow@pmail.sams.ch) about DELL Poweredge</A>
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</H2>
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<PRE>
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- Intel 486DX4/100
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- 16 MB RAM
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- DELL SCSI array (DSA) with Firmware A07, DSA-Manager 1.7
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- 1 GB SCSI HD DIGITAL
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- NEC SCSI CD-ROM
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- 2 GB internal SCSI streamer
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- 3-Com C579 EISA Ethernet card
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- ATI 6800AX PCI VGA subsystem, 1024 MB RAM
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CAVE! DELL SCSI Array controller (DSA) runs only with firmware Rev. A07 !
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A06 is buggy, impossible to reboot !
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To get it: ftp dell.com , file is /dellbbs/dsa/dsaman17.zip
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</PRE>
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<P>Apart from this firmware-problem there where no problems for the last
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2 months, running with linux 1.1.42 as primary nameserver, newsserver
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and www-server on internet.
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<P>
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<H2><A NAME="ss8.8">8.8 zenon@resonex.com about Gateway2000 P-66 </A>
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</H2>
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<P>Gateway2000's P5-66 system with Intel's PCI motherboard,
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with 5 ISA slots and 3 PCI slots.
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The only PCI card I am using is the # 9 GXe level 12 PCI card (2 MB VRAM and
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1 MB DRAM). This card was bought from Dell. Under Linux I am using
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the graphics in the 80x25 mode only (I am waiting for some XFree86
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refinements before using it in 1280x1024 resolution), but under
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DOS/Windows I have used the card in 1280x1024x256 mode without
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problems. Etherlink 3C509 Ethernet card, Mitsumi bus-interface
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card, Adaptec 1542C SCSI interface card and additional serial/parallel
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ports card (which makes the total of serial ports 3).
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<P>I have total of 32 MB RAM (recognized and used by both Linux and DOS).
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There is also a bus mouse (Microsoft in the PS2 mode).
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<P>No problems so far.
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<P>
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<H2><A NAME="ss8.9">8.9 James D. Levine (jdl@netcom.com) with Gateway2000 </A>
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</H2>
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<P>Gateway 2000 P5-60 with an Intel Mercury motherboard, AMI-Flash-BIOS,
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(1.00.03.AF1, (c)'92) 16M RAM, on-board IDE controller and an ATI AX0
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(Mach32 Ultra XLR) PCI display adapter. He had absolutely no problems
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with the hardware so far but has not tried anything fancy, such as
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accelerated IDE drivers or SCSI support.
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<P>
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<H2><A NAME="ss8.10">8.10 hi86@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de with SPACE </A>
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</H2>
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<P>SPACE-board, 8MB RAM, S3 805 1MB DRAM PCI
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260MB Seagate IDE-hard disk because of lack of
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NCR53c810-Driver, 0.99pl15d, does seem to work well.
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<P>
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<H2><A NAME="ss8.11">8.11 grif@cs.ucr.edu with INTEL </A>
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</H2>
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<P>17 machines running a 60Mhz-i586 on
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Intel-Premier-PCI-Board
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<H2><A NAME="ss8.12">8.12 Jermoe Meyers (jeromem@amiserv.xnet.com) with Intel Premiere</A>
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</H2>
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<P>
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<P>Motherboard - Intel Premiere Plato-babyAT 90mhz with Buslogic bt946c
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w/4.86 mcode w/4.22 autoSCSI firmware, (note, mine came with 4.80
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mcode and 4.17 autoSCSI firmware. (interrupt pins A,B,C conform to
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respective PCI slots!) ATI Xpression (Mach64) - using driver from
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sunsite, (running AcerView 56L monitor).
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<P>The motherboard has 4 IDE drives, Linux (Slackware 2.0) sees
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the first two and everything on the Buslogic as it
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emulates an adaptec 1542. Uh, yes, Dos sees them all.
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Buslogic is VERY accomodating in regards to shipping
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upgraded chips (you will have to know how to change
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PLCC (plastic leaded chip carrier) chips, 3 of them.
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Though, don't let that scare you :-) it's not that tough.
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Get a low end PLCC removal tool, and your in business.
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You also might want to "flash upgrade your system bios from
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Intel's IPAN BBS, a trivial process. Whats even more
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interesting is I also have a Sound Blaster SCSI-2 running
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a scsi CDROM drive off it's adaptech 1522 onboard controller.
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So thats 4 IDE drives (2 under Linux) and 2 SCSI-2 controllers.
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<P>
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I hope this helps others who are struggling with PCI technology use Linux!
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Jerry (jeromem@xnet.com)
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<H2><A NAME="ss8.13">8.13 Timothy Demarest (demarest@rerf.or.jp) Intel Plato Premiere II</A>
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</H2>
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<P>My system is configured as follows: 16Mb 60ns RAM, 3Com Etherlink-III
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53C809 ethernet card (using 10base2), ATI Mach 64 2Mb VRAM, Toshiba 2x
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SCSI CDROM, NCR 53c810 PCI SCSI, Syquest 3270 270Mb Cartridge Drive,
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Viewsonic 17 monitor, Pentium-90 (FDIV Bug Free). Running Slackware
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2.1.0, Kernel 1.2.0, with other misc patches/upgrades.
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<P>Everything is functioning flawlessly. I dont recommend the Syquest
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drives. I have used the 3105 and the 3270 and both a very, very
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fragile. Also, the cartridges are easily damaged and I have had
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frequent problems with them. I am in the process of looking for
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alternative removable storage (MO, Zip, Minidisc, etc).
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<P>Some information you might need:
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<P>
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<H3>Flash Bios upgrades </H3>
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<P>Flash Bios updates can be ftp'd from
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wuarchive.wustl.edu:/pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS/plato. The current version is
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1.00.12.AX1. The BIOS upgrades *must* be done in order. 1.00.03.AZ1
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to 1.00.06.AX1 to 1.00.08.AX1 to 1.00.10.AX1 to 1.00.12.AX1. The Flash
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BIOS updates can also be downloaded from the Intel BBS. I do not have
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that number right now.
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<P>
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<H3>NCR 53c810 BIOSless PCI SCSI</H3>
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<P>If you are using an NCR 53c810 BIOSless PCI SCSI card in the
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Plato, you may have trouble getting the card to be recognized. I had
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to change one of the jumpers on the NCR card: the jumper that
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controls whether there is 1 or 2 NCR SCSI cards in your system must be
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set to "2". I dont know why, but this is how I got it to work. The
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other jumper controls the INT setting (A,B,C,D). I left mine at A
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(the default).
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<P>
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<H3>apart from that - plug and play!</H3>
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<P>There are no settings in the motherboard BIOS for setting the NCR
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53c810. Dont worry - once the card is jumpered correctly, it will be
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recognized! So much for PCI Plug-n-Play!
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<P>
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<H2><A NAME="ss8.14">8.14 heinrich@zsv.gmd.de with ASUS </A>
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</H2>
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<P>ASUS-PCI-Board (SP3) having:
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<P>
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<P>
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<UL>
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<LI> -- Asus PCI-Board with AMD 486/dx2-66 and 16M RAM</LI>
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<LI> -- Fujitsu 2196ESA 1G SCSI-II</LI>
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<LI> -- Future Domain 850MEX Controller (cheap-SCSI-Controller, almost
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a clone to Seagate's ST01... want's to use ncr53c810 as soon as the
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driver comes out</LI>
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<LI> -- ATI Graphics Ultra (the older one with Mach-8 Chip, ISA-Bus)</LI>
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<LI> -- Slackware 1.1.1</LI>
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</UL>
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<P>He just exchanged the boards, plugged his cards in, connected
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the cables, and it worked perfect. He does not use any
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PCI-Cards yet, though.
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<P>
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<H2><A NAME="ss8.15">8.15 CARSTEN@AWORLD.aworld.de with ASUS </A>
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</H2>
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<P>ASUS-PCI-Board with 486DX66/2,
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miro-crystal 8s PCI driven by the S3-drivers of
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XFree86-2.0, using the onboard SCSI-Chip. No problems with
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compatibility at all.
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<P>
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<P>
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<H2><A NAME="ss8.16">8.16 Lars Heinemann (lars@uni-paderborn.de) with ASUS </A>
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</H2>
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<P>ASUS PCI/I-486SP3 Motherboard w/ 486DX2/66 and 16M RAM (2x8),
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miroChrystal 8S/PCI (1MB) S3, Soundblaster PRO, Adaptec 1542b (3.20
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ROM) SCSI host adapter with two hard disks (Fujitsu M2694ESA u.
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Quantum LPS52) and a QIC-150 Streamer attached.
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No problems at all!
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<P>
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<H2><A NAME="ss8.17">8.17 Ruediger.Funck@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE with ASUS</A>
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</H2>
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<P>ASUS PCI/I-486SP3 / i486DX2-66 / 8 MB PS/2 70 ns
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BIOS: Award v 4.50
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CPU TO DRAM write buffer: enabled
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CPU TO PCI write buffer: enabled
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PCI TO DRAM write buffer: disabled, unchangeable
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CPU TO PCI burst write: enabled
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Miro Crystal 8s PCI - S3 P86C805 - 1MB DRAM
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<P>Quantum LPS 540S SCSI-Harddisk on NCR53c810-controller.
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<P>
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<H2><A NAME="ss8.18">8.18 robert logan (rl@de-montfort.ac.uk with GW/2000)</A>
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</H2>
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<P>
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<P>Gateway 2000 4DX2-66P
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16 Megs RAM,
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PCI ATI AX0 2MB DRAM (ATI GUP).
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WD 2540 Hard Disk (528 Megs)
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CrystalScan 1776LE 17inch. (Runs up to 1280x1024)
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Slackware 1.1.2 (0.99pl15f)
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<P>It is giving no problems. He uses SLIP for networking and an
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Orchid-Soundwave-32 for niceties, awaiting the NCR-Driver.
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The only problem he has is that the IDE-Drive could be much faster
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on the PCI-IDE. It is one of the new Western Digital fast drives
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and in DOS/WfW it absolutely screams - on Linux it is just as slow as
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a good IDE-Drive.
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<P>
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<H2><A NAME="ss8.19">8.19 archie@CS.Berkeley.EDU and his friend use ASUS </A>
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</H2>
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<P>Archie and his friend have rather similar configurations:
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<P>
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<UL>
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<LI> ASUS PCI-SP3 board (4 ISA, 3 PCI)</LI>
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<LI> Intel 486DX2/66</LI>
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<LI> Genoa Phantom 8900PCI card (friend: Tseng 3000/W32i chipset) </LI>
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<LI> Maxtor 345 MB IDE hard drive</LI>
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<LI> Supra 14.4 internal modem</LI>
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<LI> ViewSonic 6e monitor (Archie) </LI>
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<LI> NEC Multisync 4fge (friend)</LI>
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<LI> Slackware 1.2.0</LI>
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</UL>
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<P>The onboard-SCSI is disabled. First there were problems with
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the IDE-drive: ``on the board there's a
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jumper which selects whether IRQ14 comes from the ISA bus or
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the PCI bus. The manual has an example where they show
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connecting it to PCI INT-A. Well, we did that just like the
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example... but then later our IDE drive would not work (the
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IDE controller is on board). Had to take it back. The guys
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at NCA were puzzled, then traced it back to this jumper. I
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guess the IDE controller uses IRQ14 or something? That's not
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documented anywhere in the manual. Other than that, seems to
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be kicking ass nicely now. Running X, modeming, etc. (for the
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Supra you have to explicitly tell the kernel that the COM port
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has a 16550A using setserial (in Slackware /etc/rc.d/rc.serial))''.
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<P>
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<H2><A NAME="ss8.20">8.20 Michael Will with ASUS-SP3 486 (the old one)</A>
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</H2>
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<P>
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<P>used the following:
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<P>
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<UL>
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<LI> ASUS PCI-SP3-Board with 486dx2/66 and 16M RAM</LI>
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<LI> NCR53c810-SCSI-II chip driving a 1GB-Seagate-SCSI-II disk and a Wangtec-tape </LI>
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<LI> ATI-GUP PCI Mach32 Graphics card with 2M VRAM running perfectly
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with XFree86(tm)-3.1 8bpp and 16bpp</LI>
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<LI> Linux kernel 1.1.69</LI>
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</UL>
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<P>It runs perfectly and I am content with the speed, the ATI-GUP-PCI
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(Mach32) does not give as good benchmarks as expected, though. Since I
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got the money by now, I got me an ASUS-SP4 with P90 which gives me
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better throughput on Mach32-PCI...
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If I had even more money I'd get me another 16M of RAM and a
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Mach64-PCI with 4M RAM, though... I still keep on dreaming :-)
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<P>
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<H2><A NAME="ss8.21">8.21 Mike Frisch (mfrisch@saturn.tlug.org) Giga-Byte 486IM</A>
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</H2>
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<P>
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<P>
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<UL>
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<LI> Motherboard: Giga-Byte 486IM</LI>
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<LI> Configuration: 4 ISA slots (2 double as VLB) and 4 PCI slots</LI>
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<LI> CPU: Intel 486DX/33</LI>
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<LI> BIOS: Award 4.50G</LI>
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<LI> PCI EIDE Disk Controller: Giga-Byte GA-107 (CMD 640x PCI
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Multi-I/O)</LI>
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<LI> PCI Video card: ATI Graphics eXpression PCI 2MB DRAM</LI>
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<LI> Linux Kernel: 1.2.9</LI>
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<LI> Linux Dist'n: Highly modified Slackware 2.2.0</LI>
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</UL>
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<P>I have been running this board 24 hours a day for the past 5-6
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months. It has worked flawlessly for me under DOS/Windows, OS/2 Warp,
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and Linux (with Linux being run usually 24 hours a day).
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<P>
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<P>
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<H2><A NAME="ss8.22">8.22 Karl Keyte (kkeyte@esoc.bitnet) Gigabyte GA586 Pentium</A>
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</H2>
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<P>
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<UL>
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<LI> PCI/EISA Board Gigabyte GA586-ID 90MHz Pentium (dual processor, one fitted)</LI>
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<LI> 32M RAM</LI>
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<LI> SCSI - no scsi-NCR-chip on-board, using Adaptec 1542C,</LI>
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<LI> PCI ATI GUP 2M VRAM</LI>
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<LI> Adaptec 1742 EISA SCSI controller</LI>
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<LI> Soundblaster 16</LI>
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<LI> usual I/O</LI>
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</UL>
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<P>
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<P>Everything under DOS AND Linux works perfectly. No problem whatsoever.
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A VERY fast machine! BYTE Unix benchmarks place it about the same as
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a Sun SuperSPARC-20 running Solaris 2.3. The PC is faster for integer
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arithmetic and process stuff (including context switching). The SPARC
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is faster for floating point and one of the disk benchmarks.
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<P>
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<P>
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<H2><A NAME="ss8.23">8.23 kenf@clark.net with G/W 2000 </A>
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</H2>
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<P>He uses a Gateway 2000 with no problems, except
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the soundcard (which one?). He is trading it in for a genuine
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soundblaster in hopes that will help.
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<P>
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<H2><A NAME="ss8.24">8.24 Joerg Wedeck (jw@peanuts.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de) / ESCOM </A>
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</H2>
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<P>originaly buyed a 486 DX2/66 from ESCOM (which board?) with onboard IDE and
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without (!) onboard NCR-SCSI-chip. ISA-adaptec 1542cf
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scsi-controller instead spea v7 mercury lite (s3, PCI, 1MB),
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ISA-Soundblaster-16, mitsumi-cdrom (the slower one).
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Everything except the archive-streamer works with no problems.
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The spea-v7 works perfectly since XFree86-2.1
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<P>He abandoned the Intel-board in favour of an ASUS-SP3-g and has some
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problems with PCI-to-Memory burstmode which is crashing only on Linux,
|
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"looking like a deadlock in the swapper". If you have any information
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on this, please eMail the maintainer of the PCI-HOWTO.
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<P>After turning off the PCI-to-Memory posting feature it just works
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perfect.
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<P>Rather than sending him mail please read his http-homepage at
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"http://wsiserv.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/ jw" where he keeps
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information about his PCI-system, too.
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<P>
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<H2><A NAME="ss8.25">8.25 Ulrich Teichert / ASUS</A>
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</H2>
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<P>
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<P>ASUS-PCI board with AMD486dx40
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(but actually running at 33Mhz?!)
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His ISA-ET3000 Optima 1024A ISA works nice. No problems with
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Quantum540S SCSI Harddisk attached to the onboard NCR53c810.
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