From owner-freebsd-current Wed Feb 25 09:28:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA29505 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 09:28:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from MindBender.serv.net (mindbender.serv.net [205.153.153.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA29471 for ; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 09:28:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from michaelv@MindBender.serv.net) Received: from localhost.HeadCandy.com (localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1]) by MindBender.serv.net (8.8.8/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA25428; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 09:27:26 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199802251727.JAA25428@MindBender.serv.net> X-Authentication-Warning: MindBender.serv.net: localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Tom cc: Simon Shapiro , Kingson Gunawan , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help needed with DPT card + Asus M/B In-reply-to: Your message of Wed, 25 Feb 98 08:58:06 -0800. Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 09:27:24 -0800 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Simon Shapiro wrote: >> On 25-Feb-98 Tom wrote: >> > On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Simon Shapiro wrote: >> >> That is not it. Unless some other driver is stealing the PCI interrupt >> >> (which I do not know how to do with PCI). >> > Unless it is a silly ISA device... >> True only if the MB allows interrupts to be shared between ISA and PCI, >> which it should not. Kingston reports that Win95 works on that MB, with >> the DPT and all. > Hmmm, but how does a motherboard know what interupts a ISA card might >use? You tell it. >You certainly can't have ISA and PCI devices sharing the IRQ, but it >is up to the operators to make sure it doesn't happen. Correct. Most BIOS' will let you go in and identify which IRQs are held by ISA devices. I've had to do this on a couple of my Asus boards, and things work just great afterwards. One further step I had to take on one board, where I had an ISA ethernet card (with a block of buffer RAM on it, of course), was to identify the block of buffer memory in the 640K-1MB hole so the BIOS wouldn't let anything else stomp on that memory range. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael L. VanLoon mvanloon@exmsft.com michaelv@MindBender.serv.net Contract software development for Windows NT, Windows 95 and Unix. Windows NT and Unix server development in C++ and C. --< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >-- NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, Atari 68k, HP300, Sun3, Sun4/4c/4m, DEC MIPS, DEC Alpha, PC532, VAX, MVME68k, arm32... NetBSD ports in progress: PICA, others... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message