Linux PCI-HOWTO

by Michael Will, michaelw@desaster.student.uni-tuebingen.de

1. Introduction

2. Why PCI?

2.1 General overview

2.2 Performance

2.3 The onboard-SCSI-II-chip NCR53c810

3. ASUS-Board

4. Video-Cards

5. Ethernet Cards

6. Motherboards

6.1 ASUS

6.2 Micronics P54i-90

6.3 SA486P AIO-II

6.4 Sirius SPACE

6.5 Gateway-2000

6.6 Intel-Premiere

6.7 DELL Poweredge SP4100 gbelow@pmail.sams.ch - successful

6.8 Comtrade Best Buy PCI / PCI48X MB Rev 1.0

6.9 IDeal PCI / PCI48X MB Rev 1.0

6.10 CMD Tech. PCI IDE / CSA-6400C

6.11 GA-486iS (Gigabyte)

6.12 GA-586-ID (Gigabyte) 90 Mhz Pentium PCI/EISA Board

6.13 ESCOM 486dx2/66 - which board?

6.14 J-Bond with i486dx2/66

7. reports on success

7.1 Micronics P54i-90 (root@intellibase.gte.com)

7.2 Angelo Haritsis (ah@doc.ic.ac.uk) about SA486P AIO-II:

7.3 bill.foster@mccaw.com about his Micronics M5Pi

7.4 Goerg von Below (gbelow@pmail.sams.ch) about DELL Poweredge

7.5 zenon@resonex.com about Gateway2000 P-66

7.6 James D. Levine (jdl@netcom.com) with Gateway2000

7.7 ub9x@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de with SPACE

7.8 grif@cs.ucr.edu with INTEL

7.9 Jermoe Meyers (jeromem@amiserv.xnet.com) with Intel Premiere

7.10 heinrich@zsv.gmd.de with ASUS

7.11 CARSTEN@AWORLD.aworld.de with ASUS

7.12 Lars Heinemann (lars@uni-paderborn.de) with ASUS

7.13 Ruediger.Funck@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE with ASUS

7.14 robert logan (rl@de-montfort.ac.uk with GW/2000)

7.15 archie@CS.Berkeley.EDU and his friend use ASUS

7.16 Michael Will with ASUS-SP3 486 (the old one)

7.17 kenf@clark.net with G/W 2000

7.18 Joerg Wedeck (jw@peanuts.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de) / ESCOM

7.19 ut@informatik.uni-kiel.d400.de / ASUS

8. Reports of problems

8.1 hschmal@informatik.uni-rostock.de and SCSI-PCI-SC200

8.2 dmarples@comms.eee.strathclyde.ac.uk G/W 2000

8.3 cip574@wpax01.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Frank Hofmann) / ASUS

8.4 axel@avalanche.cs.tu-berlin.de (Axel Mahler) / ASUS

8.5 Frank Strauss (strauss@dagoba.escape.de) / ASUS

8.6 egooch@mc.com / ASUS

8.7 Stefan.Dalibor@informatik.uni-erlangen.de / GigaByte

8.8 Karl Keyte (kkeyte@esoc.bitnet) Gigabyte GA586 Pentium

8.9 Tom Drabenstott (tldraben@eos.ncsu.edu) with Comtrade / PCI48IX

9. General tips for PCI-Motherboard + Linux NCR PCI SCSI

9.1 DON'Ts:

9.2 SIMM slots

9.3 Praised PCI Pentium motherboard

9.4 irq-lines

9.5 Info about the different NCR 8xx family scsi chips:

9.6 future of 53c8xx

9.7 Performance of the 53c810

10. Conclusion

11. Thanks

12. copyright/legalese