I never really liked Eisa much because of the little problem caused when
the user no longer has his setup disk... Having it in Rom is pretty nice
and solves that problem completely.
As for not being able to assign interrupts for PNP, it isn't really true.
Depends on your Bios make and rev. Some you deny all IRQ's but the ones
you want the system to assign, some you set the irqs you want the systems
to assign, some you can't customize at all. My PNP bios is set to exclude
irq 11 from it's PNP table of available resources thereby allowing my
Adaptec scsi isa controller to sieze that interrupt as it is shunted to
take 11.
Regards,
Jeff
In <Pine.LNX.4.21.0111011558270.3113-100000_at_ploop.ikickass.org>, on
11/01/01
at 03:59 PM, One Without Reason <vance_at_ikickass.org> said:
>I prefer the reference partition, but what's even better are the RS/6000
>machines that have the reference software burned into the ROMs, and
>accessible from the ROM monitor.
>Peace... Sridhar
>On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Jeff Hellige wrote:
>> >They are better than Plug an Play. PnP doesn't let you choose any
>> >settings. Not having jumpers is a nice way to have it too. Plus not
>> >all PS/2s use the referance partition (IML).
>>
>> Some like my 8573-121 use a reference disk instead. Anytime
>> you add or remove a board you use the setup disk to copy the
>> appropriate ADF file to that disk and it sets it up. I think it's a
>> bit easier to manage than the reference partition.
>>
>> Jeff
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