Re: EIDE beats SCSI

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
Tue, 29 Apr 1997 09:30:27 -0700 (PDT)

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>
> > When I boot Linux, I typed: "ramdisk ide2=0x168,0x36e,10". It
> > begins to work fine. It can boot Linux and detect CD-ROM through
> > Sound Blaster AWE32 PNP with no problems. It is very strange that
> > I do not need to use ISA PNP Utility.
>
> proberbly semi hard wired (ie it defaults to this), or Creative thinks
> jumperless == pnp (ie software configurable == pnp), whatever.
>

Actually, if you have a PnP BIOS, it should pick up that it is an IDE
controller (it does identify as one) and initialize it appropriately.

-hpa

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