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Re: SuperMicro P54VL-PCI Motherboard and NCR53c810 PCI SCSI card

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From: James L. Dambacher
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 02:51
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In article <4bqusd$1po_001@buf.servtech.com>, dongkim@servtech.com says...
>
>In article <49vbna$7nn@kelewan.dandelion.com>,
>   "Leonard N. Zubkoff" <lnz@dandelion.com> wrote:
>>In article <49v829$i7i@canyon.sr.hp.com> darrylo@sr.hp.com (Darryl Okahata) 
writes:
>>
>>
>>  Leonard N. Zubkoff (lnz@dandelion.com) wrote:
>>
>>  > Also, if you do use a PCI SCSI card, expect peak SCSI performance to be
>>  > less than half what a Triton board is capable of.
>>
>>       Care to explain this?  You're the first person I've seen
>>  complaining about PCI-based SCSI controllers.
>>
>>I am only complaining about PCI SCSI performance on the OPTi combined
>>VL/PCI Pentium motherboards (you omitted that part in your excerpt).  It is
>>a reasonably well known fact that the PCI implementation on these boards is
>>a poor performer; I'm merely quantifying this data further.  I have
>>compared identical system configurations where the only change was the
>>replacement of an OPTi VL/PCI chipset motherboard with an Intel Triton one,
>>and sustained SCSI hard drive performance went from a measured < 3 MB/sec
>>to over 7MB/sec.
>>
>>               Leonard
>
>I have this motherboard and wondering if anyone know where to get the BIOS
>upgrade information. All they say in the manual is MADE IN USA, and no phone 
number
>and no address. 
>
>I'm using DOS, Windows 95, and Linux on my machine. I tried the OS/2 Warp and 
cannot
>get the Mitusmi 4X IDE and NCR drivers installed. I suspect the it's the 
problem
>with the motherboard. With those drivers installed, OS/2 install simply 
stops..
>
>Dongseong Kim
>
Hi,
 Your mobo is made by Supermicro, I have the same board. I can't find their
phone# right off hand.
                                Jim
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From: jdam@fgi.net (James L. Dambacher)
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Subject: Re: SuperMicro P54VL-PCI Motherboard and NCR53c810 PCI SCSI card
Date: 28 Dec 1995 02:51:38 GMT
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