Re: Limit of 6 IDE interfaces?

Martin Mares (mj@ucw.cz)
Mon, 19 Apr 1999 10:19:05 +0200


Hello!

> I have a no-name motherboard, the driver complains that the controller is
> not 100% PCI compliant but I am not using the IDE at all since the system
> is all SCSI. I do not know if it will properly share an IRQ since I do not
> have any IDE drives here at home to test it with.
>
> I suppose I could drag it into the lab to test it. The only marking I can
> find on the board is:
>
> MS5120 VER:1
>
> It uses a PIIX controller that complains on bootup about not being 100%
> PCI.

This message doesn't say anything about PCI compliance of the device.
It speaks about compatibility with the PCI-IDE standard.

Have a nice fortnight

-- 
Martin `MJ' Mares   <mj@ucw.cz>   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
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