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To: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@headcandy.com>
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Subject: Re: Using two NCR 53C825 controllers blows up? 
Date: Sat, 08 Jun 1996 16:27:01 -0700
From: Dave Hayes <dave@kachina.jetcafe.org>
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"Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@HeadCandy.com> writes:
>What kind of machine is this?

Oops, sorry. It's not a name brand per se. It is an "Intel Advanced
ZP" motherboard. AMI Bios, and I don't have the revision handy.

>However, the "second" card was actually installed with a lower address
>or IRQ or something.  The only thing that made it come "after" the
>first was because it was hacked into the BIOS that way.  After
>bootstrapping, NT doesn't use the BIOS anymore, and so would make the
>"second" controller into the first controller under NT, and the
>"first" controller would become the second.  The drives on the
>controllers, of course, would then follow the new order.  Very very
>annoying.

That's real swell, now how do I find out whether it's doing that?
These NCR cards have jumpers to switch between INT A/B/C/D, but 
I don't think PCI interrupts are as simple as ISA ones. Do I hafta
play with the jumpers?
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