On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
> Brad Fritz wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 21:21:12 EST Tony wrote:
> > For the record, I have several LEAF boxes with multiple 3c509s in
> > them. One has six 509s, another has five and several more have
> > two each.) I do not use the "irq=" parameter with any of them and
> > I have never had problems with them being recognized as long as they
> > are properly configured via the DOS utility. I always disable the
> > PnP setup and make sure they all use separate IRQs and
> > non-overlapping I/O port addresses. I also insert them in order by
> > MAC address into the ISA slots to protect my sanity when running
> > cables. :-)
>
> Specifying 'irq=...' is a way to force an order. The cards will
> be picked without it too, as you have it.
You must be thinking of some other driver(s)... in my experience, the 509
driver automatically orders the cards by MAC address whether you like it
or not, and does not take any hints otherwise.
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