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From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: What is ed1: device timeout?
Date: 2 Oct 1996 16:43:14 GMT
Organization: Coverform Ltd.
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In article <52lu44$67m@uriah.heep.sax.de>,
j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:
> Since i've seen it twice recently (once at Walnut Creek CDROM, where
> Jordan has been hunting for this for about an hour :), make also sure
> that your PCI setup does know about the ISA IRQ allocation.
> Otherwise, it will happily re-assign the IRQ to some PCI device, for
> example (though totally useless) to the video card, rendering the ISA
> device interrupt defunct.
Yeah - My bios does this - *and* it doesn't allow you to manually exclude
the IRQ !
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....