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"Rhia" <rhiannon@dandelion.com> wrote:
>In article <4k0tnp$o66@info.evansville.net> tkraft@evansville.net (Toby L. Kraft) writes:

>> Whenever I install a new PCI board, I never know what IRQ will get
>> assigned to it.  The PCI board may get an IRQ assigned to an ISA board
>> and then the trouble begins.

>It doesn't sound like you're using the latest SCO driver from BusLogic,
>then, because it's PCI compliant and doesn't care whether the IRQ moves or
>not - it'll go out and find the adapter anyway.  Versions of the driver
>prior to 2.06 were not completely compliant and forced you to use 0x334h
>and IRQ=11 in order to have the card recognized as a BusLogic.  You can get
>the latest driver at ftp://ftp.buslogic.com/pub/current/SCO.EXE

There's no problem with the BusLogic just that the reassigned IRQ
conflicts with a previously assigned IRQ on another ISA board.

>> Where is a good source of info about PCI in regard to actually explaining
>> how all this works and how to live with it.

>I'd like to know too.  :-)

Contact I have at Phoenix suggests:

PCI Special Interest Group
PO Box 14070
Portland, OR 97214
phone:	(800) 433-5177
phone:	(503) 797-4207
fax:	(503) 234-6762

but still looking for a book or downloadable FAQ &/! Spec on PCI.

>> PS I never had these problems with ISA boards...

>Well, they haven't made ISA "Plug & Play/Pray" yet.  Fortunately.

Oh yes they have - there is a ISA PnP Spec (version 1.0a dated May 5,
1994) put out by Intel and Microsoft that describes how to make ISA
boards Plug'n'Play compatible.

Toby L. Kraft, Kraft Enterprises, Inc., Evansville. IN USA