Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Markus Gutschke) | Subject | Re: Triton II | Date | 28 May 1996 17:00:15 +0200 |
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Drew Eckhardt <drew@poohsticks.org> writes: > Unfortunately, it fails to mention any hardware bugs which may be > present in the current masking, so the question of weather it works > under Linux remains. > > Has any one successfully (ie, no sig6 or sig11 when rebuilding > the kernels; demanding PCI busmasters like the NCR boards work > fine, etc.) run one of the Triton II boards under Linux?
A friend of mine just bought a new motherboard (ASUS) with a Triton II chipset. He wants to use this machine for DOS/W95. He was experiencing serious data corruption on his EIDE drives, thus I decided to test if this is a problem with his RAM chips or with the EIDE interfaces. I plugged in my ethernet card and remote booted Linux. There were no apparent problems with compiling the kernel multiple times; even parallel compiles did not exhibit any unusual problems (other than virtual memory exceeded :-)). Thus we deducted, that the motherboard and the RAM are probably fine, but that the EIDE interfaces are very susceptible to HF noise. After shortening the flat ribbon cables to less than 10in and removing all but one of his harddrives, things seem to have stabilized.
Although this is just a very superficial test, it suggests, that the Triton II chipset seems to work fine with Linux. Nonetheless it is advisable to install SCSI rather than EIDE equipment. BTW, I noted similar problems with my brother's computer who has a Triton I based motherboard.
Markus -- Markus Gutschke Internet: gutschk@math.uni-muenster.de Schlage 5a D-48268 Greven-Gimbte Germany
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