Disabling IO probing is a bad idea 

Forum: PCMCIA Installation and Configuration Issues
Re: Question: Machine Reboots on high volume network traffic (Jason M. Sullivan)
Date: 1999, Nov 29
From: David Hinds <dhinds@pcmcia.sourceforge.org>

> So I got the PCMCIA package and cardmgr running (I needed to turn off IO > probing. Disabling IO port probing is a very bad idea unless you're very sure about what you're doing. My guess is that you've now got an IO port conflict, which is causing reads and writes to the card to sometimes have unexpected results. Rather than disabling the IO probe, it would be much better to play with the IO port windows in /etc/pcmcia/config.opts to find a setting that doesn't cause a freeze. -- Dave

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More: Working now, but one last question Re: Disabling IO probing is a bad idea (David Hinds) Date: 1999, Nov 30 From: Jason M. Sullivan Jason0x21

Ok, I got the card working with a minimal amount of frittering around, but one question remains. The port scan picked up a port that seemed to work (or worked much better than the previous ones), but my memory map lists that as in use by MIDI. I suppose I need to check and see if I can play a MIDI tune while accssing the nextwork, but the question is this: How does the port actually get asigned? Does it just look for a "free" port?, and tell the card where to respond? If that's the case, I'm guessing I should probably exclude the MIDI port? Thanks!

1. Clean resource allocation is hard by David Hinds, 1999, Nov 30 (_ More: Time for me to talk to TI/Acer by Jason M. Sullivan, 1999, Nov 30

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