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to: MIKE BILOW
from: TOM RUDDY
date: 1998-01-22 22:50:00
subject: NOVELL & WD 6.4GIG

 TR>   The tape controller SCSI board is in a slot that is
 TR> hardwired to the same IRQ as the built-in controllers.
 MB> There's no such thing as a hardwired IRQ, certainly 
 MB> not in an HP Netserver.  You probably need to get the 
 MB> EISA configuration utility for that machine.
 TR>   HP documentation tells me I can use most any IRQ I want
 TR> for the onboard controllers and that slot *will* use that
 TR> IRQ as well. That's what I am trying to tell you.  :-)
 MB> Then HP documentation is wrong.  This is up to the software and drivers.
   HP literature is wrong? Whatever will they think of next? 
   If that is so, then the bios setup utility is also wrong. There is *no* 
way to assign a different IRQ to that slot than is used by the onboard 
controllers
   Any other ideas? It's the latest bios revision as well.
                                                       Tom Ruddy
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