Possible to disable EIDE on PCI motherboards?

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#61

Author: Keith Bennett
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 1995 00:00

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

Re: Possible to disable EIDE on PCI motherboards?

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Author: 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
> 
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>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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Re: Possible to disable EIDE on PCI motherboards?

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Author: William Harris
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 1995 00:00

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Keith Bennett (kbennett@cpcug.org) wrote:
: 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
:  
How about just getting a PCI pentium motherboard with onboard SCSI, they are
around....

	-Will
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Re: Possible to disable EIDE on PCI motherboards?

#58

Author: 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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