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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.


I have found that some boards are still not fully compatible with the 
BT-946C.  I was running on a PCI 486 board when I first purchased my 
BT-946C, and found that there were some incompatibilities between the 
board and the controller.  The board claimed that it was PCI 2.0, and 
Buslogic Tech Support said that it should work with my Firmware revision, 
but still a no-go.  I upgraded to a Pentium TRITON based motherboard, 
with PCI 2.10, and had no problems installing it.  (Just ensure that you 
set the IRQ for the slot in BIOS, and I think you have to put it in slot 
1, or your BusMaster slot for it to work correctly-- The BT-946C touches 
on BIOS problems with using UNIX.  You can make LILO load all the way up 
to the point where it attempts to first mount your root partition, and 
then it fails because it tries to take the controller out of BIOS's control.)

I am currently using this drive to power a USENET news server with a 5GB 
RAID-0 array using the MD Software RAID drivers.  Works REALLY REALLY well.

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     Justin H. Scott - Network Administrator - DFW Internet Services, Inc
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