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From: jacs@gnome.co.uk ( Chris Stenton)
Subject: Re: OPTi PCI chip set & BT-946C
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Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 15:29:34 GMT
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Paul (paul@myrddin.isl.cf.ac.uk) wrote:

: >Having done some investigation on PCI motherboards it appears that
: >motherboards made with the OPTi PCI chip set do NOT work with the
: >BusLogic BT-946C. I understand that BusLogic are not willing to fix
: >the problem.

: Have you got more details? Like why they don't work together and whether there
: will be problems with other cards too?

My understanding is that the OPTi chipset is not an exact clone of the
Intel chip set.  The BusLogic Card is not seen at all on start up. I
have not been given the reason why this is.

Which Other PCI Cards work? The word MOST was all that came out.

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