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Re: Buslogic KT-930 and Non-Intel Motherboards
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (redhat@davelee.student.Princeton.E)
Mon Jan 5 16:21:37 1998
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:16:05 -0500 (EST)
From: <redhat@davelee.student.Princeton.EDU>
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199801051710.JAA09995@dandelion.com>
"Just say no" to the VXpro, TXpro, etc. clone chipsets.
I've heard of nothing but problems with them -- they are cheap
ripoffs of the intel chipsets.
I suspect that they have some rather fatal bugs. I have a friend with
a 'TXpro' motherboard and the only way he can get it to boot is by
taking it out of the case and putting it on a piece of rubber...
On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Leonard N. Zubkoff wrote:
> 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
>
