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Re: PCI hot swap through bridge
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- Subject: Re: PCI hot swap through bridge
- From: wen-king@myri.com (Wen-King Su)
- Date: Sat, 7 Jun 97 18:27:07 PDT
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>From: Brad and Renea Ree <rbree@mindspring.com>
>
>We are currently developing a system which is connected to a PC through
>a PCi bus exptender. The problem is that during debug, we are power
>cycling the extened backplane often. Whenever the card is power cycled,
>it's configuration is lost and NT can not find the card. The easiest
>solution has been to power cycle the computer, but NT is EXTREMLY slow
>to reboot. Does anyone know of a simple way to not have to reboot the
>computer? Thanks in advance.
Use Linux. Linux boots much faster. Since you have all the sources
with linux, you can probably modify it so you can get it to restore the
PCI configurations on command.
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