Re: IDE-Driver Update :: Testing Requested (Ultra33 as RAID?? (fwd))

Andre M. Hedrick (hedrick@astro.dyer.vanderbilt.edu)
Thu, 27 Aug 1998 11:56:05 -0500 (CDT)


On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Martin Mares wrote:

> Can you look at the PCB whether the board uses PCI IRQ pins different
> from IRQ A? In case it uses, it violates the PCI specs as they say it's
> allowed only for multi-function devices. In case it doesn't use, it's
> impossible to have both halves generating different IRQs.

I appears to conform w/ IRQ A.

> (On the other hand, you should never read interrupt numbers from PCI
> configuration registers, because most architectures [including i386 on
> SMP machines] do remap IRQ numbers. Use the number in struct pci_dev
> instead.)

I do follow these guide lines for selecting an interrupt.

Cheers,
Andre

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