Re: Possible to disable EIDE on PCI motherboards?

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From: Thanh Ma
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 1995 00:00

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mcnab_p@melbpc.org.au (Peter McNab) writes:

>In article <44qboa$78@cpcug.org> kbennett@cpcug.org 
>(Keith Bennett) writes:

>>I am considering buying a Pentium motherboard with onboard EIDE.  I
>>don't want the EIDE; it just seems to be included on most MB's.  I
>>will be getting an Adaptec 2940 SCSI adapter.  My question is: is it
>>possible to completely disable the onboard EIDE controller so the
>>IRQ's it occupies can be used by other hardware?  One of the things I
>>really like about SCSI is that you can use all kinds of devices all
>>on 1 IRQ.

I disabled both standard IDE and PCI/IDE on my motherboards to use the 2940.
No problems.

Thanh Ma
tma@encore.com

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From: tma@encore.com (Thanh Ma)
Subject: Re: Possible to disable EIDE on PCI motherboards?
Date: 1995/10/04
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