Can XP embedded re-enumerate the PCI bus when a system has booted?

On Dec 9, 10:16=A0am, "Nial Stewart"
<nial*REMOVE_TH...@nialstewartdevelopments.co.uk> wrote:
> > In W2K, the *user* can force a SCSI bus to be re-enumerated
> > under Device Manager (scan for hardare changes). =A0Have you tried
> > something like this?
>
> This is early days of the project, I'm just thinking ahead.
>
> Is the SCSI bus not a special case to allow hot swapping of
> drives?
>
> > Can you also just have your BIOS pause for a second or two
> > during the boot sequence? =A0Or, other similar tricks to
> > delay when the enumeration happens (is this process documented
> > in detail anywhere that you could examine)?
>
> This might be an option if we did have a problem.
>
> Hopefully with a bit of forward planning we won't.
>
> Nial.


Some boards have a watchdog timer that could help(perhaps with a
'latch-out' on the FPGA board to disallow a second reset?). Best
approach is probably configure/customize the bios somehow.