Re: Limit of 6 IDE interfaces?

Dan Hollis (goemon@sasami.anime.net)
Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:02:08 -0700 (PDT)


On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 18, 1999 at 09:34:55PM -0700, Dan Hollis wrote:
> > Behold. scsi card and sound card sharing PCI irq (10). It works too
> One of those is ISA?

No. Both are PCI.

> PCI devices will happily share interrupts with other PCI devices. but
> I've never seen an ISA and a PCI device share the same interrupt,
> this was what I was questioning...

I dont think this is possible.

> (Of course, if the IDE controllers are purely PCI device, this
> doesn't matter. I really wish someone like Mark Lord would chime in
> now)

AFAIK Promise UDMA controllers are purely PCI.

-Dan

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