Re: Need isapnp early in boot. How?
Enough lurking :) This newbie has questions, but we'll start with
some answers.
Check out the following:
http://www-jcr.lmh.ox.ac.uk/~pnp/
It involves patching the kernel to provide pnp support directly
within the kernel, therefore eliminating the need for isapnp
completely.
He initially designed it for SB cards. here's a quote from the
website:
> What hardware does it support?
>
> The 0.1 and 0.2 patches support the SB16 PnP, Vibra16 PnP
> SB32/AWE32/AWE64 PnP, including the Game port and IDE parts of these
> devices, with a driver (kernel) patch.
>
> The 0.3 patches support these with driver patches, but have the added
> capability of supporting most other devices implcitly or indirectly -
> enable automatic configuration of all PnP devices to use this.
HTH
On 8 Apr 99, at 23:25, kaynjay@igalaxy.net
wrote about Need isapnp early in boot. How?:
> Hello-
>
> My home system has a CD attached to a SB Vibra 16 board, with 2 other drives off the
> single channel IDE controller. If I don't first boot into DOS or OS/2, the
> CD is incorrectly recognized (hdg instead of hdc) and is inaccessable.
>
> Isapnp apparently comes up too late in the boot to help. I currently get
> messages about resource conflicts when it tries to initialize (though things
> work since the card's been warmed booted from another OS). I've checked the
> settings and they match what I use in DOS and OS/2.
>
> How early can I get isapnp to initialize the card? Should I put the script
> in rc.boot, or elsewhere?
>
> Under OS/2 I need a special little (3rd party) driver to specifically initialize the IDE
> port ... does anyone know whether this is also a problem under Linux which isapnp
> doesnt address on a cold boot?
>
> Thanks for any suggestions!
>
> Kenward Vaughan
>
>
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