Re: Possible to disable EIDE on PCI motherboards?

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From: Peter McNab
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 1995 00:00

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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.
> 
>Thanks for any help.
>- Keith
> 
>-- 
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Keith Bennett                             Bennett Business Solutions, Inc.
>Silver Spring, MD USA                     OS/2 & DOS Software Development
>kbennett@cpcug.org                        (301) 871-7696

The ASUS PCI/I-P54SP4 which appears to have the CMD640 EIDE controller chip 
identified as being realy buggy can have the onboard IDE disabled. I too am 
contemplating going down a similar path, becauseIBM have been too slow at 
releasing a software fix to enable OS/2 to run in the manner originally 
intended.

 
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From: mcnab_p@melbpc.org.au (Peter McNab)
Subject: Re: Possible to disable EIDE on PCI motherboards?
Date: 1995/10/03
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