| Reason: |
All ATA cards (including Flash ATA) under any MS OS need an IRQ and such
IRQ cannot be shared. If there are no free IRQ lines in the system, then ATA
card will only be recognized, but it will be no disk device created for this
card and card will not work. CardWare for Windows NT 4.0 does not need an
IRQ, because it includes the ATA driver that works in polling mode with such
cards. CardWare for Windows 2000/XP does not include ATA driver and uses the
system's one. The standard Windows 2000/XP ATA driver does not support
polling mode and cannot work with the ATA card without assigned IRQ. |