Date: Tue, 19 Dec 95 11:07:32 EST
Message-Id: <9512191607.AA12492@cthulhu>
From: Mike Long <mike.long@analog.com>
To: giles@nemeton.com.au
Cc: port-i386@NetBSD.ORG
In-Reply-To: <199512191304.AAA03329@nemeton.com.au> (message from Giles Lean
	on Wed, 20 Dec 1995 00:04:20 +1100)
Subject: Re: SoundBlaster 16 and IDE CD ROM
Organization: Analog Devices CPD
Reply-To: Mike Long <mike.long@analog.com>
Sender: owner-port-i386@NetBSD.ORG
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>Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 00:04:20 +1100
>From: Giles Lean <giles@nemeton.com.au>

>As a result of some horsetrading with a supplier after they sold me
>some highly bogus equipment, I now own a Plug&Play SoundBlaster 16
>card and an IDE CD ROM.

If you have a Plug&Play BIOS, the SB16 should just work.  If not, then
you may have to boot DOS, configure the card, then warm boot into
NetBSD.  Yuck, I know.

A while ago I took a stab at some Plug&Play init code.  Right now all
it does is send the initiation key and isolate cards.  I don't expect
that I'll ever be able to finish it and make it work properly unless
cgd's New World Order ISA code is incorporated into the main tree,
though (HINT, HINT).  Plug&Play needs to know what I/O ports, etc.,
are used in order to do its job.
-- 
Mike Long <mike.long@analog.com>           http://www.shore.net/~mikel
VLSI Design Engineer         finger mikel@shore.net for PGP public key
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