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From: Ben Clewett <B.Clewett@roadrunner.uk.com>
Subject: Re: Network cards and lilo
Date: Fri, 02 May 2003 14:52:57 +0000
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terry white wrote:
> on "5-2-2003" "Ben Clewett" writ:
> 
> : As these are ancient cards which can not easily be reprogrammed, is
> : there any way to tell the kernel to honour my network cards, and not use
> : IRQ=15 for the IDE?
> 
> ... liking to think i'm a 'forward looking old fart', i'd reprogram the
> card to avoid the 'standard' irq to ide mapping.  but that's just me.
> 
>     failing that, i'd disable the secondary ide channel in the bios ...
> 
> 

Thanks!  Yes this might be the way I go.

Odd that it worked perfectly in my five year old kernel.  Yet the latest 
does not work...

Ben