Re: Greetings. Having a FIFO overrun when my amplc_pci230 card is set on the other side of a PCI bridge

On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 17:31 +0000, Ian Abbott wrote:
> On 27/01/06 16:14, Michael R. Head wrote:
> That's interesting as it suggests some problem with PLX chips.  The most 
> recent PLX chips for this sort of application (the 9000 series chips) 
> are the 9030, 9056 and 9656 (the last one being for 64-bit applications) 
> so it would be interesting to see if any of those have the same trouble. 

We replaced one of my cards (a RS232 adapter) which had a PLX9050 with a
newer adapter that has the PLX9030. Tech support from that vendor said
the 9050 had problems with bridges.

>   If you can get hold of a PCI230+ card from Amplicon to try out, it 
> uses the newer PLX PCI 9030 chip.

Oh, did I not make that clear? I have the PCI230+ (actually, I wasn't
aware that they were two different cards).

mike

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