I discovered tonight that the right-most ISA slot (the one closest to
the power supply) in my newly-unearthed 5160 won't take the Silicon
Valley Computer ADP50L IDE controller I'm playing with.  It will take
other (very short!) cards, but when I put the IDE controller into it,
either the option ROM is invisible (ie. 55AA not found) or won't
initialize for some reason, because I don't get functionality out of it
(least of all, the boot "banner" produced by the card is missing).
I can only conclude that:
1. The IDE board is slightly awry
2. The right-most ISA slot is slightly awry
3. There is some technical limitation I'm not aware of
#1 and #2 are easy to accept, but not #3.  Is there such a limitation?
I remember that some of the very first PCI Pentium boards (circa
1994-1995) would only take PCI video cards in one particular PCI slot,
so maybe that's where I'm pulling this from...
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