Thats' interesting.  Did the PCI transaction just timeout?
IIRC, without a device claiming the transaction on PCI, (assert
DEVSEL#) the data won't get written, and the POST card won't see
anything.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ronald G Minnich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Christopher Stutts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 12:09 PM
Subject: Re: IDE spinup....


> On 11 Apr 2002, Christopher Stutts wrote:
>
> > On Intel PIIX4s, I/O to port 80 will go to the ISA bus, eat up time, and
> > pound on a benign (POST) port.  But what if you don't have an ISA bridge
> > or PCI POST card which snags that address?
>
> nothing. The card is totally passive.
>
> On at least one motherboard, we saw POST go to PCI but not ISA. That was
> interesting.
>
> ron
>

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