NON SGI PCI cards that should work in an SGI

WARNING: If you need a card that works and that needs to be relied on, buy it from SGI. This page is only intended to help those without a corporate budget and with 'lower expectations of functionality'

O2

Type Manufacturer Model Notes
NET (Token Ring) Madge Networks UNKNOWN - will lookup
SCSI Adaptec AHA2940UW This card only - not anything similar or anything with 'pro' or a U2W in the title.
(There is a hack to allow certain other cards to work - but I don't currently have details)

Octane

Type Manufacturer Model Notes Cautions
Audio M-Audio Revolution 7.1 Apparently supported in 6.5.21 NOT YET SUPPORTED
Fibrechannel Adaptec AIC-1160 **** VERIFY! TO BE VERIFIED
Fibrechannel QLogic QLA2100 **** VERIFY! TO BE VERIFIED
Fibrechannel QLogic QLA2200 **** VERIFY! TO BE VERIFIED
Fibrechannel QLogic QLA2300 **** VERIFY! TO BE VERIFIED
SCSI QLogic QLA1040 UW - Same as IOC3 builtin SCSI TO BE VERIFIED
SCSI QLogic QLA1041 UWD - Hi-voltage differential TO BE VERIFIED
SCSI QLogic QLA1080 U2W - LVD 80MBytes/sec TO BE VERIFIED
SCSI QLogic QLA1280 U2W - LVD 80MBytes/sec dual channel TO BE VERIFIED
SCSI QLogic QLA12160 U2W - LVD 160MBytes/sec dual channel TO BE VERIFIED
SCSI DEC/digital KZPBA-CA UW (QLogic QLA1040) TO BE VERIFIED
SCSI DEC/digital KZPBA-CB ****VERIFY! UWD (QLogic QLA1041) TO BE VERIFIED
SCSI DEC/digital KZPBA-CX UW (Qlogic QLA1040) TO BE VERIFIED

TODO:

There appears to possibly be driver support for an ethernet card with a texas instruments thunderlan chipset, and possible a compaq vendor id - to be investigated (awaiting Octane PCI card cage).