[KLUG Hardware] Re: SCSI card recommendation

[Bryan J. Smith]

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On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 11:50, Bruce Smith wrote:
> I'm still a little leery about them after plugging one into a=20
> ECS K7S5A motherboard.  That didn't work, and Linux didn't know
> any better.  Linux kept on using it, randomly corrupting data
> until the entire system was trashed.  This happened multiple
> times until I bought a different (more expensive ASUS) mobo.
> Since then it's worked fine.

Same problem with Windows.  It's the AMI BIOS and IRQ sharing.  You just
have to make sure it isn't sharing _any_ IRQs with the 3Ware card.

> I don't know if it was sharing an IRQ or not, but I know that=20
> I'll never plug a RAID card of any kind into that mobo again!

I don't plug anything but a video card and NIC into AMI boards.

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