Roy J. Tellason wrote in a message to Mike Bilow:
 MB> Personally, I like to put Ethernet cards at 340h and IRQ 12.
 RJT> What about 8-bit cards?  (Some of these are 8 bit.)
IRQ 5 is preferred, next is IRQ 2/9.
 RJT> I did try 300h and found that I was running into problems
 RJT> with something or other.  With trying some of the cards I
 RJT> don't have info on,  one of them showed me a conflict with a
 RJT> dual serial port card that happened to be in the test
 RJT> fixture at the time,  which I've since removed.  Another one
 RJT> gave me a blank screen and now that IDE/Floppy card won't do
 RJT> the floppy seek any more. :-( 
It is rare that you can burn up cards by installing them in conflict, but it 
does happen.  I don't think any newer cards have this problem.
 RJT> Do I *need* a memory aperture on all of those cards?  One of 
 RJT> the Samsung cards has a boot eprom on it,  none of the rest 
 RJT> do...
Memory aperture is RAM, made accessible for DMA.  Whether you need this 
depends upon your particular card.  NE2000 cards, for example, cannot use a 
memory aperture and cannot do DMA.  More expensive cards sometimes require a 
memory aperture and a DMA channel to support it.  A few cards offer a memory 
aperture as an option for high performance.
 
-- Mike
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