On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 10:42:50PM -0400, Sean Davis wrote:
> Not very bizarre to me... I have a PCI slot in this machine that likes to
> share with the onboard ATA66 chip, so when I was using that chip, the NIC in
> that slot would get VERY hot... but in other slots, it wouldn't try to share
> irqs with that (instead it'd do it with a different device)... I really wish
> I understood the need for IRQ sharing, but I guess Intel does and I do not
> ;)

Wow. That's a very interesting side-effect of sharing a high interrupt
load device with a low-load one.

That your IDE throughput will suffer is obvious, but overheating the
ethernet card is entertaining. (in a "glad it's not my card" kind of way
;-)

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