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Subject: [Doubt] Can a PCI device communicate with another PCI or other
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Hello,

I have a small doubt.

Suppose I have a PCI card with a general purpose CPU on it. Could it be able
to communicate with another PCI device or ISA device(lets say IDE hard
disk)?

Thanks,
Srinivas