Linux PCI-HOWTO
by Michael Will,
michaelw@desaster.student.uni-tuebingen.de
version 0.5b / 1995 January
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 The EATA-DMA driver and the PCI SCSI controllers from DPT
2.6 Future Domain TMC-3260 PCI SCSI
2.7 other thoughts on scsi
3.
ASUS-Board
4.
confusion about saturn chipsets
5.
Video-Cards
6.
Ethernet Cards
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 Comtrade Best Buy PCI / PCI48X MB Rev 1.0
7.9 IDeal PCI / PCI48X MB Rev 1.0
7.10 CMD Tech. PCI IDE / CSA-6400C
7.11 GA-486iS (Gigabyte)
7.12 GA-586-ID (Gigabyte) 90 Mhz Pentium PCI/EISA Board
7.13 ESCOM 486dx2/66 - which board?
7.14 J-Bond with i486dx2/66
8.
reports on success
8.1 Micronics P54i-90 (root@intellibase.gte.com)
8.2 Angelo Haritsis (ah@doc.ic.ac.uk) about SA486P AIO-II:
8.3 bill.foster@mccaw.com about his Micronics M5Pi
8.4 Goerg von Below (gbelow@pmail.sams.ch) about DELL Poweredge
8.5 zenon@resonex.com about Gateway2000 P-66
8.6 James D. Levine (jdl@netcom.com) with Gateway2000
8.7 hi86@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de with SPACE
8.8 grif@cs.ucr.edu with INTEL
8.9 Jermoe Meyers (jeromem@amiserv.xnet.com) with Intel Premiere
8.10 heinrich@zsv.gmd.de with ASUS
8.11 CARSTEN@AWORLD.aworld.de with ASUS
8.12 Lars Heinemann (lars@uni-paderborn.de) with ASUS
8.13 Ruediger.Funck@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE with ASUS
8.14 robert logan (rl@de-montfort.ac.uk with GW/2000)
8.15 archie@CS.Berkeley.EDU and his friend use ASUS
8.16 Michael Will with ASUS-SP3 486 (the old one)
8.17 Karl Keyte (kkeyte@esoc.bitnet) Gigabyte GA586 Pentium
8.18 kenf@clark.net with G/W 2000
8.19 Joerg Wedeck (jw@peanuts.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de) / ESCOM
8.20 ut@informatik.uni-kiel.d400.de / ASUS
9.
Reports of problems
9.1 hschmal@informatik.uni-rostock.de and SCSI-PCI-SC200
9.2 dmarples@comms.eee.strathclyde.ac.uk G/W 2000
9.3 cip574@wpax01.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Frank Hofmann) / ASUS
9.4 axel@avalanche.cs.tu-berlin.de (Axel Mahler) / ASUS
9.5 Frank Strauss (strauss@dagoba.escape.de) / ASUS
9.6 egooch@mc.com / ASUS
9.7 Stefan.Dalibor@informatik.uni-erlangen.de / GigaByte
9.8 Tom Drabenstott (tldraben@eos.ncsu.edu) 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
11.
news about NCR53c825 support
12.
Conclusion
13.
Thanks
14.
copyright/legalese