[powerstation-owners] powerstation comp. list update

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 08:08 +0100, sama99suka ok wrote:
> 
> 2011/4/15 Pat Wall <pjwall at mac.com>
>         Hi Acrux
>         
>         
>         On 06/04/11 01:42, acrux wrote:
>                 well, after long time I used again our Powerstation as
>                 desktop with
>                 linux-2.6.39-rc1.
>                 I found some several issue using (the expensive)
>                 Belkin F5U602ea and i
>                 was obliged to remove it.
>                 With FireGL V5600 i encuntered only a problem in 3d
>                 with an error
>                 like this:
>                 IRQ's not enabled, falling back to busy waits: 2 0
>                 instead with the stock X1650 all is fine.
>                 
>                 Does somebody gained better experience with a
>                 PCIE/USB2 ??
>                 Any model suggestion ?
>                 
>                   
>         I've had no problems with the Belkin F5U252 5 Port USB2.0
>         card. The card was shipped by Fixstars with my PowerStation.

Note that there are significant differences in HW between the slots on
the powerstation. One slot (x16) is directly connected to the Apple/IBM
CPC945 northbridge while others are behind Broadcom
hypertransport<->PCIe bridges.

My experience is that some work better than others for some kinds of
card (no specific rule here, but worth trying moving cards around in
case of problems).

As for the FireGL V5600, what kind of card is this ? IE. What
generation ? (what does lspci and what does the radeon driver says ?)

Cheers,
Ben.


>         All the best
>         
>         
>         Pat
>         
>         
>         
>         
>                 cheers,
>                 Acrux
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