At 01:16 PM 4/9/00 -0400, David Aikema wrote:
>Is it necessary to disable the plug-n-play aware setting in the bios in
order for devices to be detected correctly?

On a Linux-only host, you tell the BIOS that you are NOT using a PnP-capable
OS. This will let the BIOS set up devices in PCI slots correctly for use in
Linux.

>(and if i do switch it will it screw up my windows settings?)

Probably. I don't run dual-boot systems so can't help with this part.

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