[2868] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: about linux kernel compilation and SCSI devices
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kurt Garloff)
Wed Nov 26 19:04:47 1997
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 00:50:17 +0100 (CET)
From: Kurt Garloff <garloff@kg1.ping.de>
To: michel.herrera@cigb.edu.cu
cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <259C7C57882@serverdos.cigb.edu.cu>
On Wed, 26 Nov 1997 michel.herrera@cigb.edu.cu wrote:
> Why is important to set the PCI bus option during kernel compilation
> for SCSI hard drives?
Some SCSI Host adapters only exits with PCI bus. So you can only choose
those with PCI support enabled. Some use PCI dataspace to find IRQ and
other resources assigned (by the BIOS) to your SCSI host adpater.
Kurt Garloff, Dortmund
<K.Garloff@ping.de>
