Linux PCI-HOWTO
by Michael Will,
Michael.Will@student.uni-tuebingen.de
v0.6d, July 1996
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 BT-946C fully supported with kernel 1.3.x and newer
2.8 Future Domain TMC-3260 PCI SCSI
2.9 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:
3.5 Pat Dowler (dowler@pt1B1106.FSH.UVic.CA) with ASUS SP3G
4.
confusion about saturn chipsets
5.
Video-Cards
6.
Ethernet Cards
6.1 3com-3c590-tpo
6.2 DEC435 PCI NIC
7.
Motherboards
7.1 ASUS
7.2 Micronics P54i-90
7.3 SA486P AIO-II
7.4 Sirius SPACE
7.5 Gateway-2000
7.6 Intel-Premiere
7.7 DELL Poweredge SP4100 gbelow@pmail.sams.ch - successful
7.8 DELL OptiPlex Gl+ 575
7.9 Comtrade Best Buy PCI / PCI48X MB Rev 1.0
7.10 IDeal PCI / PCI48X MB Rev 1.0
7.11 CMD Tech. PCI IDE / CSA-6400C
7.12 GA-486iS (Gigabyte)
7.13 GA-586-ID (Gigabyte) 90 Mhz Pentium PCI/EISA Board
7.14 ESCOM 486dx2/66 - which board?
7.15 J-Bond with i486dx2/66
7.16 super micro 011895 03:50 SUPER P54CI-PCI rev 1.3 (Opti)
8.
reports on success
8.1 California Graphics - Sunray II Pro
8.2 Micronics P54i-90 (root@intellibase.gte.com)
8.3 Angelo Haritsis (ah@doc.ic.ac.uk) about SA486P AIO-II:
8.4 bill.foster@mccaw.com about his Micronics M5Pi
8.5 Simon Karpen (karpens@ncssm-server.ncssm.edu) with Micronics M54pi
8.6 Goerg von Below (gbelow@pmail.sams.ch) about DELL Poweredge
8.7 zenon@resonex.com about Gateway2000 P-66
8.8 James D. Levine (jdl@netcom.com) with Gateway2000
8.9 hi86@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de with SPACE
8.10 grif@cs.ucr.edu with INTEL
8.11 Jermoe Meyers (jeromem@amiserv.xnet.com) with Intel Premiere
8.12 Timothy Demarest (demarest@rerf.or.jp) Intel Plato Premiere II
8.13 heinrich@zsv.gmd.de with ASUS
8.14 CARSTEN@AWORLD.aworld.de with ASUS
8.15 Lars Heinemann (lars@uni-paderborn.de) with ASUS
8.16 Ruediger.Funck@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE with ASUS
8.17 robert logan (rl@de-montfort.ac.uk with GW/2000)
8.18 archie@CS.Berkeley.EDU and his friend use ASUS
8.19 Michael Will with ASUS-SP3 486 (the old one)
8.20 Mike Frisch (mfrisch@saturn.tlug.org) Giga-Byte 486IM
8.21 Karl Keyte (kkeyte@esoc.bitnet) Gigabyte GA586 Pentium
8.22 kenf@clark.net with G/W 2000
8.23 Joerg Wedeck (jw@peanuts.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de) / ESCOM
8.24 Ulrich Teichert / ASUS
9.
Reports of problems
9.1 Compaq PCI systems, especially Presarios
9.2 VLSI Wildcat PCI chipset like in Zeos P120 box
9.3 hschmal@informatik.uni-rostock.de and SCSI-PCI-SC200
9.4 dmarples@comms.eee.strathclyde.ac.uk G/W 2000
9.5 cip574@wpax01.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Frank Hofmann) / ASUS
9.6 axel@avalanche.cs.tu-berlin.de (Axel Mahler) / ASUS
9.7 Frank Strauss (strauss@dagoba.escape.de) / ASUS
9.8 egooch@mc.com / ASUS
9.9 Stefan.Dalibor@informatik.uni-erlangen.de / GigaByte
9.10 Steve Durst (sdurst@burns.rl.af.mil) with UMC 8500 mainboard
9.11 Tom Drabenstott (tldraben@Teleport.Com) with Comtrade / PCI48IX
10.
General tips for PCI-Motherboard + Linux NCR PCI SCSI
10.1 DON'Ts:
10.2 SIMM slots
10.3 Praised PCI Pentium motherboard
10.4 irq-lines
10.5 Info about the different NCR 8xx family scsi chips:
10.6 future of 53c8xx
10.7 Performance of the 53c810
10.8 News about NCR53c825 support
10.9 Frederic POTTER (Frederic.Potter@masi.ibp.fr) about Pentium+NCR+Strap_bug
10.10 PCIprobe in the latest Linux Kernels by Frederic Potter
10.11 Other PCI Devices
11.
Conclusion
12.
Thanks
13.
copyright/legalese
14.
GPL - Gnu Public License
