Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 May 1999 23:13:14 +0200 | From | Martin Mares <> | Subject | Re: Weird PCI problem |
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Hello!
> Yes, I know that, and PLX has told me that these bits are hardwired once > the BIOS has programmed it.
Once the BIOS has programmed it? It should be hard-wired even before the BIOS touches the register for the first time. :-)
> I have a question though: if it is a hardware problem, then why does the > card correctly allocates the base address 2 as MEMORY under Windows NT and > DOS ?? It's at least intriguing that this allocation _only_ fails on Linux > ... > > It if was a hardware problem, I would expect the problem to happen in > _any_ OS.
Huh, this is real black magic ... how was it tested under DOS? Using a DOS driver for the card?
Have a nice fortnight -- Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@ucw.cz> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/ Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth "It said, "Insert disk #3," but only two will fit!"
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