RE: Hot PCI bus plugging

Jones D (djones2@glam.ac.uk)
Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:33:39 -0000

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> > I don't think you can rescan the bus, but what you can do is
> > hot-replace a card. ie If your nic breaks you could hot-swap
> > it with an identical nic, and insert the driver again.
> > incidentally, this is no more than what NT4 can do on
> > Compaq hardware.
> eek.. one little thing. card side PCI initialisitation..
> might need a little utility to poke it.

setpci from pciutils should be more than up to the job.

Dave.

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