VLB SCSI?

From: One Without Reason <vance_at_ikickass.org>
Date: Thu Nov 1 17:26:56 2001

On Thu, 1 Nov 2001 UberTechnoid_at_home.com wrote:

> 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.

I've never seen a PC with a setup program in ROM that can do
device-specific resource allocation.

> 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.

Have you ever tried to do resource allocation on a microchannel box? Far,
far superior to "shrug & pay".

Peace... Sridhar
Received on Thu Nov 01 2001 - 17:26:56 GMT