Tigereye MB, IRQ problem with W95 :-(

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From: Andy Blair
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 00:00

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I'm trying to free up IRQs on a Tigereye motherboard, the problem is the
PIIIX PCI IDE controller.

If I disable the secondary IDE controller W95 still allocates it IRQ 15.

If I disable PnP bios support and allocate IRQ15 to an ISA device W95
disables both primary & secondary IDE controllers.

Is there any way to disable the secondary IDE without disabling the
primary ? While still using W95 ;-)

The problem seems to be with W95 treating the PCI IDE controller as one
device rather than the primary and secondary controllers individually.

The idea is to keep using an ATAPI CD when the HDs are SCSI - yes I know
a SCSI CD would solve the problem but I don't have one and can't see why
the above should be a problem :-)

Thanks 

Andy
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Andy Blair     andy@etive.demon.co.uk

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From: Andy Blair <andy@etive.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Tigereye MB, IRQ problem with W95 :-(
Date: 1997/03/11
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