kmeis@drutx.ATT.COM (Kevin J. Meis) (09/22/90)
>> Can I plug an 8-bit card (i.e. a RLL controller, or a VGA card) into >> a physical 16-bit bus like those found on 2/386 machines? Will the >> performance of either the card or the m'board suffer? >> >> Thanks! Paul Beker .. gt4824a@prism.gatech.edu Juha Laiho responds: >NEVER even try to put an 8-bit hard-disk controller to a machine w >16-bit bus. I don't know whether or not it actually destroys something, >but definitely it won't work.... I currently am running an 8bit controller in a 386SX and everything seems to work fine as long as I use the ROM BIOS extension from the controller. The mother-board BIOS doesn't seem to work, something about a missing interupt (Phoenix BIOS). Kevin Meis att!drutx!kmeis