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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!convex!convex!constellation!rex!ben From: ben@rex.uokhsc.edu (Benjamin Z. Goldsteen) Subject: Re: FreeBSD 1.1.5 on PCI (was: NetBSD-1.0 - WHEN?) Message-ID: <CwM0D1.F9L@rex.uokhsc.edu> Date: Sat, 24 Sep 1994 01:05:25 GMT Reply-To: benjamin-goldsteen@uokhsc.edu References: <199408172054.PAA07862@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> <VIXIE.94Sep22005733@gw.home.vix.com> <35t468INN16tr@rs1.rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE> Organization: Health Sciences Center, University of Oklahoma Lines: 20 se@fileserv1.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE (Stefan Esser) writes: >In article <VIXIE.94Sep22005733@gw.home.vix.com>, vixie@gw.home.vix.com (Paul A Vixie) writes: >|> PCI is not ready for prime time. It does video OK but that's all. >|> Show me a motherboard and disk controller that work together, and >|> I'll show you ten that don't. If you aren't convinced I'll show >|> you ten more that don't. If you still aren't convinced, next week >|> there will be ten new ones that don't. >Well, I guess there is nothing wrong with PCI, but PCI >in an ISA PC is calling for trouble ... >In my experience, there was no problem at all, if it was >not for the interrupt mapping (PIC IntA -> ISA IRQ #). What about a PCI/EISA system? Thanks -- Benjamin Z. Goldsteen