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Re: Buslogic KT-930 and Non-Intel Motherboards
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leonard N. Zubkoff)
Mon Jan 5 12:18:28 1998
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 09:10:09 -0800
From: "Leonard N. Zubkoff" <lnz@dandelion.com>
To: olaf@criseis.ruhr.de
CC: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: <m0xowC0-0001eRC@criseis.ruhr.de> (olaf@criseis.ruhr.de)
From: olaf@criseis.ruhr.de (Olaf Kaluza)
Date: Sun, 4 Jan 1998 20:58:39 +0100 (MET)
Hi,
Has somebody heard about a problem of the Buslogic KT-930 and
Non-Intel Motherboards? I mean that this board kills the hostadapter!
I had a KT-930 now for five or six months inside an old Asus 486PVI
and it works like a dream.
Three weeks ago I bought a PC-Chips M537 Pentium Board with VXpro
Chipsset. The 930 works in this board but forgot very often (every
second or third boot) his Eeprom. I had to reenter my defaults in the
adaptermenue but after this I can boot Linux/DrDos/Win95 without a
problem.
On the next day I does a reboot from Linux to Win95 (shutdown -r now)
but it doesn't work anymore. When the system is comming up the Bios of
the Hostadapter told me that he can't install himself. I tried to boot
Linux with a floppy and the kernel detects the adapter but says
something about a internal hardware error and stops working. (sorry, I
don't wrote down the error)
Okay, at this point I thought this was a normal fate and my dealer
replaced the card under warranty by a new one.
The new card is working, but forgott his eeprom-defaults, too. I put
it out of the computer quickly to prevent another dead card.
The motherboard himself is working fine with a Asus-SC200 and a
Adaptec 1542CF(!) card. But this can't be a continuance solution,
because I bought the KT930 and will use it. I like it much better than
the poor SC200.
And the motherboard was a cheap one (139DM==$90) but works really fine,
don't want to replace it, too. I don't think that there is something
wrong with the motherboard/PCI because the NCR is working and a
Haupauge-WIN/TV works with a Ati Expert@Work, too. (The error happens
only with the 930 and a grafikcard, too! Depends not on another card)
Has anybody heard of this problem? Any ideas what I can do?
Oh, and this problem depend not on the CPU, I killed the first card
with a Intel P120 and the new one doesn't work with a AMD-K6/233
This is certainly strange. Have you contacted Mylex HBA Technical Support
(techsup@mylex.com)? They would be your best source for definitive information
on a problem like this.
Leonard
