Some info about the asus Asus tusl2

ronaldmeij · Post by **ronaldmeij** » Mon Sep 03, 2001 12:23 pm

Is this mainboard just as fine as the normal
Cusl2 ???

My system :

Asus TUSL2 mainboard 815 EP chipset

Creative geforge 2 Pro 64 mb AGP / ( or is the voodoo 5500 AGP better ,because i have that one also ?? ).

514 mb ram ( 2 modules of 256 ) 133 mhz

adaptec scsi controller pci ( 2940 UW )

Plextor scsi uw cd rom

plextor scsi uw cd rom burner external

Seagate cheetah 5 gb harddisk rpm 10.000

maxtor 15 gb harddisk 15 gb

windows 98 second edition

EarlyFirst · Post by **EarlyFirst** » Mon Sep 03, 2001 10:02 pm

All I will say is you just defeated the purpose of the i815 chip by adding the SCSI stuff.....

cheers
paul

ronaldmeij · Post by **ronaldmeij** » Tue Sep 04, 2001 1:58 am

Why

is the scsi fucking up my system then...

subhuman · Post by **subhuman** » Tue Sep 04, 2001 11:16 am

Because SCSI hogs the PCI bus, whereas on the i815 chipset the IDE controller connects directly to the ICH2 hub, and doesn't eat your PCI bandwidth.

You can maybe fix this partially by limiting the throughput of your SCSI card, check your manuals for how to do this.

emenelton · Post by **emenelton** » Wed Sep 05, 2001 7:45 am

consider adding an ide hard drive to use for audio, and leaving your scsi in for cd-r. I use a very similar setup and it works very well.

braincell · Post by **braincell** » Tue Oct 02, 2001 5:44 pm

I have an ASUS CUSL2 and a 933 megahertz CPU. I had to remove my SCSI card because of an IRQ conflict I could not solve (I have 3 creamware cards). Now everything seems so fast. I plan to get an ATA 100 drive as my second drive for hard drive recording.

marcuspocus · Post by **marcuspocus** » Tue Oct 02, 2001 8:53 pm

Have 2 creamware cards,2 ethernet card, an a SCSI, and this is the limit of CUSL2-C.

I use SCSI exclusively for CDROM, CDRW and DVD.

With the PowerPulsar, that i plan to get for my christmas gift, i'll have to remove SCSI..., don't know yet how i will manage CDs after this. Maybe i'll get a second PC to put the net card in a make some gateway to internet, i'll save a PCI slot that way.

Mo · Post by Mo » Sat Oct 06, 2001 8:21 am

i´d leave at least one (ide) drive in the creamware pc for reading akai cd´s and copying them quickly onto disk...

btw, thanks for setting a (coloured) trend...

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braincell · Post by **braincell** » Sat Oct 06, 2001 10:49 am

so it's okay to have a scsi as long as you aren't using it while you use the pulsar? I always heard the scsi drives running.

marcuspocus · Post by **marcuspocus** » Sat Oct 06, 2001 8:29 pm

No no, you can use the SCSI no problem with creamware cards, no problem. The problem is that they MUST be on their own irq, not sharing with anything, even onboard stuff that is deactivated. SCSI card by adaptec are far more sensitive to IRQ than Creamware cards. In my CUSL2-C, Adaptec AHA2940U2W is working ONLY in PCI slot 3, and this without ANY other PCI cards. Removing all other cards and trying PCI slot 1, 2 ,3 ,4 ,5, only the 3rd worked, period.

Pulsar or luna worked on almost all of them, except on 2nd PCI slot, donno why.

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[ This Message was edited by: marcuspocus on 2001-10-06 21:55 ]