more scsi qs

[Mike Rambo]

Marcel Kunath wrote:

> I booted the machine into Windows and there it says irq 11 and io 140. I am
> trying to avoid to take the card out. Should this indicate that it is set for
> these values or does windows override the hardware?
>

If the machine has a PnP bios windows will use whatever values the PnP bios starts
the card with _UNLESS_ someone has manually went into system properties and
changed them to something other than the defaults - in that instance windows does
override the default settings.  If you don't have a PnP bios (ie. an older
machine) then windows, or more specifically the windows driver for that device, is
the source of those settings.  Most PnP bioses will display some sort of message
at boot time about finding and configuring PnP cards - you might watch for that.
It won't tell you the values it assigned but it will let you know where in the
boot sequence those values are getting assigned.  Sorry I can't help with the
Linux side of the problem but I'm enough of a novice that Linux + isapnp still
confuse me - I haven't even gotten a sound card to work yet (although I've only
tried once so far :-).

Mike Rambo
Lansing School District