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Leonard N. Zubkoff (lnz@dandelion.com) wrote:
: In article <Dn92LB.Cn@daneb.ping.de> mueller@daneb.ping.de (Andreas Mueller) writes:

:   I'm considering to buy the BT946C SCSI card for an ASUS TP4XE board. The
:   Linux SCSI Howto mentions a good driver stability because of its mailbox
:   communication principle. However, a reliable german computer magazine tested
:   this card and experienced several PCI incompatibilities (C't 1/95). It was
:   not possible to correctly set up this card in a Plato board.
                                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
:   Has the situation changed?  Maybe someone is using a BT946C with an ASUS
:   board. Suggestions for other SCSI cards are also welcome.

: 1/95 was a long time ago and those problems should be long passed now.  The
: present revision BT-946C should have no problems in a Plug & Play compliant
: motherboard.  At one time I tested four of them together in a TP4XE board
: and it seemed to work fine.

: 		Leonard

I just wanted to say that I used my BT946C in an Intel Plato motherboard with no
problems (I'm now using the card in an Endeavour). I can thoroughly recommend the
BT946C - mine has proved totally reliable, and Leonard's BusLogic device driver is
very robust and fast (thanks Leonard ;-). I currently have two discs, a CDROM, and
a HP DAT drive connected to the card...

In addition, I'm also very pleased with the technical support at BusLogic. When I
bought the card early last year it had an older BIOS version that was causing a
problem with tagged queueing. Both Leonard and techsup@buslogic.com were very
helpful, and BusLogic sent me the upgrade ROM chips free of charge.

Regards,
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Julian Thompson (jrt@miel.demon.co.uk)