Hello, My company manufactures a couple of systems using ISA based data acquisition cards. As many are no doubt aware, the availability of PC's with ISA interfaces is not good. Anyway, our short term solution involves using HP desktop PC's and an expansion card that connects to the motherboard and gives two ISA slots. The only thing on the card (apart from the connectors) is a PC87200 PCI to ISA bridge. Anyway, to my question:
Has anybody out there taken an existing ISA design, and converted to PCI painlessly (i.e. without fundamental software/driver changes). I ask because the HP (and another solution from Dell) extension appears to just plug into the PCI bus, and give working ISA slots even from DOS (not a Windows driver). I've investigated a few PCI-ISA solutions, but none give us what we want. The main limitation is our requirement for two DMA channels. So, any information on the experiences of others would be very interesting. Thanks for your time. Steve. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
