Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 01:03:57 -0700 From: Darren Pilgrim <dpilgrim@uswest.net> To: "Joseph T. Lee" <nugundam@la.best.com> Cc: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com>, Michael Slater <mikey@iexpress.net.au>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fact or Fiction (Unix vs NT) Message-ID: <3728126D.D484DA8D@uswest.net> References: <21EF26FF9AD8D01180E9BA3BC10000000EA13A@george1.iexpress.net.au> <3715886E.E6888C7D@3-cities.com> <19990423180711.A14514@la.best.com> <37213B37.DFA11CCD@uswest.net> <19990428185244.A5435@la.best.com>
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"Joseph T. Lee" wrote: > On Fri, Apr 23, 1999 at 08:32:07PM -0700, Darren Pilgrim wrote: > > What do you have in that machine? I've got a sound card, NIC, 2 SIOs, > > LPT, USB, SCSI, single EIDE, AGP, and a PS/2 mouse all using IRQs and > > none of it is sharing. > > I have a 3Com 3C905B in slot 1, Creative PCI128 in slot 2, Creative Live! > in slot3, Creative DXR2 dvd decoder in slot 4, ASUS v3400TNT in AGP, all on > an ASUS P2B-S motherboard. > > I got the 2 sound cards, 1 nick, 2 SIOs (with nothing attached), LPT, > USB, U2W scsi, using only a single EIDE, AGP, PS/2 keyboard. > > Supposedly, on most 4 slot motherboards, slot 1 shares with AGP. In this > motherboard, slot 3 shares with any onboard NIC (none here), slot 4 shares > with SCSI and USB. Ah that's why. Got it, I don't have DVD or a second sound card, just the 3c905 NIC and my Live!. It'd stick more stuck in it, but Windoze doesn't like it when stuff shares IRQs--the NIC driver exception faults the video driver when the TCP/IP stack loads if they're IRQ sharing. Too bad I can't just run pure FreeBSD on this machine. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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