----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Greater NH Linux Users' Group" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 7:24 PM Subject: Re: Fighting with IRQs.
> Not exactly. The cards themselves do not determine their configuration, Read my post again. I did not say that the card did this. I said that the ESCD program did (the part of the BIOS that builds the ESCD data.) > and they need no non-volatile storage. The host computer (either the BIOS, > or the OS, or some other program) gives them their configuration. Some cards DO keep their own configurations, although it may be only ISA cards which do this. Frequently, without a PnP BIOS to configure them, you needed a special configuration program (certain Adaptec ISA SCSI adapters do this) to set the IRQ and DMA (if applicable.) > > Now, most BIOSes will "remember" PCI and PnP resource allocations between > boots. The "Reset Configuration Data" option causes the BIOS to reconfigure > all devices and rebuild the ESCD. It is a one-time option -- after the > reset is performed, the "Reset Configuration Data" setting will switch back > to "Disabled". Not true in all cases. Some BIOSes will keep the setting on Enabled, and you will see the "ESCD update success..." message on every boot. Rich Cloutier President, C*O SYSTEM SUPPORT SERVICES www.sysupport.com ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************