According to the spec. sheet to which there is a link on the ebay page 
describing the item in question

http://www.bellmicro.com/fibrechannel/newasp/lsi_hba/downloads/sym21040.pdf

this is indeed a 64-bit PCI card -- but it claims to be backward 
compatible with 32-bit/33MHz PCI slots.

Mention is also made of the RAID BIOS, but I saw nothing about use in 
non-RAID systems.

Remind me again what drive you have, please. And to which connector have 
you hooked it up? What about termination?

-=-
Alan


On 12/28/04 07:01 pm Don{ald} O. Woodall tossed the following 
ingredients into the ever-growing pot of cybersoup:

>  >>      Here is what the Lsi's BIOS displays at boot up.
>  >
>  >> LSI LOGIC CORP. SDMS(TM) V4.0 PCI SCSI RAID BIOS, PCI REV. 2.0,2.1
>  >> Copyright 1995-2000 LSI Logic Corp.
>  >> PCIRAID-4.17.00
>  >
>  >> LSI LOGIC Corp. PCI RAID boot ROM, no supported devices found!
>  >
>  >>      Notice the lack of the line to press CTRL-C to enter
>  >> the BIOS.  After that, the screen turns black, and I assume
that it is the
>  >> motherboard's BIOS that posts a message in the upper left
hand corner of
>  >> the screen informing me that it can't find a boot drive with
"Press Any
>  >> Key To Reboot."
> 
>  >Does this sequence of events occur even if you have a bootable floppy
>  >inserted ready to flash with? You probably want to get rid of that 4.17
>  >RAID BIOS and put a normal 4.19 BIOS in. If you get nowhere trying, put
>  >another LSI card in with it and use its setup utility to proceed. Does
>  >the card physically have 21040 on it? Maybe someone upstream modified or
>  >misidentified it.

>      I finally saw the obvious, which had been staring me
> right in the face all the time.
> 
>      The LSI21040 I have in hand is NOT a PCI card !
> 
>      You tell me what it is, please.
> 
>      It is twice as long in the card edge as a PCI card.
> 
>      Does that make it a 64-bit PCI ???



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