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Re: PCI?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Drew Eckhardt)
Wed Jun 28 02:11:30 1995
To: Jon Freivald <jaf@jaflrn.liii.com>
cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 27 Jun 1995 21:29:43 EDT."
<199506280129.VAA12816@jaflrn.liii.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 1995 23:30:21 -0600
From: Drew Eckhardt <drew@poohsticks.org>
In message <199506280129.VAA12816@jaflrn.liii.com>, jaf@jaflrn.liii.com writes:
>I looked in the SCSI-HOWTO at the list of supported cards, but it
>doesn't enumerate if any of them are PCI.
You didn't look at new enough SCSI HOWTO
Adaptec 2940 aha274x PCI
Buslogic 946S buslogic PCI FAST SCSI-II, activte
termination.
Buslogic 956C buslogic PCI WIDE version of 946
DPT PM2024 eata_dma PCI $395 FAST SCSI-II
PM2124 eata_dma PCI $595 FAST SCSI-II
PM3224 eata_dma PCI $1995 FAST SCSI-II
multichannel
active termination
Future Domain 3260 fdomain PCI
NCR53c810 (boards sold 53c7,8xx PCI $70 chip, not board. Boards
by FIC, Chaintech, (board) don't include
Nextor, Gigabyte, etc. BIOS, although most
Mainboards with chip by non-NCR equipped main
AMI, ASUS, J-Bond, boards have the SDMS
etc. Common in DEC BIOS
PCI systems)
NCR53c815 ( 53c7,8xx PCI $115 NCR53c810 plus
Intel PCISCSIKIT, bios
NCR8150S, etc)
NCR53c825 53c7,8xx PCI Wide variant of
NCR53c815. Note that
the current Linux
driver does not
negotiate for wide
>Does Linux support any PCI SCSI cards?
Sure. You'll probably be happiest with a BT946 at this point - it will
work with any Linux kernel. I think the DPT drivers will work with any
thing new enough to include the DPT driver; NCR boards with 1.1.39 or
newer (note the current software limitations mentioned in the SCSI-HOWTO;
if you can live with them the NCR boards are a good choice), the Adaptec
2940 needs a version of the driver not included in the kernel; and I would
NOT use one of the future domain boards (no DMA, low performance, twice
the price of a busmastering NCR board).
