by tony <spamtrap@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Mar 6, 2008 at 09:52 AM
> PCI-IDE-HD controllers can use bus-master-UDMA and are configurable
> to reside at any desired PCI address, but this is the job of the BIOS
> (it knows what hardware is on-board) and is rare altered by an OS.
>
> The OS may read the PCI-config to tell the 'driver' where this mem-****ts
> are to be found. It 'can' alter this address, but I never saw it happen
I am confused, i believe hard disk is connected to an ATA bus, so how
does PCI config fit in this scenario and why it holds info about disk
controller?
