David Maslen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > If you have IRQ problems (thank you Intel for only giving us 16 IRQs), you can
> > plug a separate card into different slots to get it to use different IRQs.  If
> > you have multiple SCSI controllers, you can change the order of which one comes
> > first by reordering the cards as well.
> But using SMP on the dev kernels don't we have IRQ sharing
> available for PCI cards? I think my network card and scsi controller
> share a IRQ. It worried me at first, but it works, and I think I read
> about it in the documentation.

I meant it more as a general comment of only having 16 IRQs and having to share
them.  For what it's worth, I have a Baynetworks FA310TX card that won't work
in one of the PCI slots in my Dell GXPro (but fortunately it works in another).

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