PRB: OSR2 Sets Bridge Control Register ISA Enable Bit
PSS ID Number: 169576
Article Last Modified on 3/5/1999
The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft Win32 Device Driver Kit (DDK) Windows 95
This article was previously published under Q169576
SYMPTOMS
PCI devices that are assigned I/O resources by the BIOS with the lower 10
bits in the range of 100-3FFh may not work properly when installed behind a
PCI bridge on Windows 95 OSR2.
CAUSE
OSR2 sets the PCI Bridge Control Register ISA Enable bit. Setting the ISA
Enable bit causes the bridge to block I/O transactions to the device when
the lower 10 bits of the address are in the range 100h-3FFh. This results
in the following behavior:
I/O Range: (repeating pattern up to FFFF, only the first 10FFh bytes are
shown.)
1000 - 10FF Forward
D00 - FFF Block Forwarding
C00 - CFF Forward
900 - BFF Block Forwarding
800 - 8FF Forward
500 - 7FF Block Forwarding
400 - 4FF Forward
100 - 3FF Block Forwarding
0 - FF Forward
This can be a problem if the BIOS assigns a PCI device I/O resources in a
range that will be blocked by the ISA Enable Mode.
STATUS
This problem has been resolved in the next version of the Windows operating
system.
Keywords: KB169576
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