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From: ben@rex.uokhsc.edu (Benjamin Z. Goldsteen)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 1.1.5 on PCI (was: NetBSD-1.0 - WHEN?)
Message-ID: <CwM0D1.F9L@rex.uokhsc.edu>
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 1994 01:05:25 GMT
Reply-To: benjamin-goldsteen@uokhsc.edu
References: <199408172054.PAA07862@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> <VIXIE.94Sep22005733@gw.home.vix.com> <35t468INN16tr@rs1.rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE>
Organization: Health Sciences Center, University of Oklahoma
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se@fileserv1.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE (Stefan Esser) writes:

>In article <VIXIE.94Sep22005733@gw.home.vix.com>, vixie@gw.home.vix.com (Paul A Vixie) writes:
>|> PCI is not ready for prime time.  It does video OK but that's all.
>|> Show me a motherboard and disk controller that work together, and
>|> I'll show you ten that don't.  If you aren't convinced I'll show
>|> you ten more that don't.  If you still aren't convinced, next week
>|> there will be ten new ones that don't.

>Well, I guess there is nothing wrong with PCI, but PCI 
>in an ISA PC is calling for trouble ...

>In my experience, there was no problem at all, if it was 
>not for the interrupt mapping (PIC IntA -> ISA IRQ #).

What about a PCI/EISA system?

Thanks
-- 
Benjamin Z. Goldsteen