28 Jun
2001
28 Jun
'01
10:05 a.m.
Brian Chase skrev:
On 28 Jun 2001, Iggy Drougge wrote:
> Brian Chase skrev:
> > There's EISA. I thought it was an okay
bus while maintaining backwards
> > compatibility with ISA. It'd have been more successful if it were
> > cheaper. As for other non-jumpered busses, Sun's Sbus is nice.
>
> EISA is similar to MCA, it's got the same descriptor files, only they're
> called INF instead of ADF.
Do all EISA and MCA based systems require these? I
don't seem to remember
having to deal with them on MCA based RS/6000 AIX systems, or say under
NetBSD/i386 for an old 80386 EISA box I have.
While I haven't got any RS/6000 experience, I don't get as far being able to
boot any OS without a proper reference partition on my Compaq EISA server.
Is it possible that maybe the existence of .ADF and
.INF files is just a
brain-damaged Microsoft OS requirement?
Nope, it's a braindead IBM/PC industry requirement.
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