Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 6 Jul 1996 18:15:34 -0400 (EDT) | From | "David R. McGown" <> | Subject | Re: beware of SiS |
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> > salam, > > I experience continous problems with a chipset known as "SiS", > be that VLB or be that PCI boards or mixed systems. Just now I am getting > > "hda: timeout: status=0x50" > > when trying to install RedHat from CD-ROM (connected in ide0 as master > w/ no additional devices neither on ide0, nor on ide1, since HD=SCSI). > > the board I am using this time is labeled: P/I P55SP4 > the chipset are labeled: SiS / 5513 / (c)(m)SIS'95 / CGD0193 / 9603IT > > I know there's a boot-option ("vlbsis???") which I am not sure if it > helps, since I am using a pure PCI board right now. > this is the 3rd time this happens to me. other boards never give > me this problems, i.e. triton/intel chipset, ali chipset ... > > you are warned: avoid SiS ... seems to be junkware.... not hardware. > > /herp > > > I think this is an over-broad statement. I have a perfectly fine RedHat Linux system using a Asus SV2GX4 DX4-400 motherboard that uses an SIS 47x series chipset. In fact, SIS probably makes close to the top 486 chipsets available. I have no experience with the ASUS P/I P55SP4 Pentium board that you have, but are you sure that you have the board setup to boot off the SCSI drive? I have heard of various problems with the combination of an ide CDROM with SCSI disk system, particularily since the bios will try to boot off of ide0, unless you have a bios that you can set a SCSI disk as the boot device.
From what I have seen/heard of the ASUS Pentium boards, the Intel/Triton-based boards offer better performance from a memory bus perspective than the SIS boards.
David
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