Method and apparatus for configuring a computer system

A method and apparatus for recognizing and initializing second level peripherals on busses local to add-on cards. During startup, a personal computer receives an identifier from an add-on peripheral. A driver is executed that initializes the add-on peripheral, and determines whether any peripherals...

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Main Author KLEBANOV ILYA
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 28.05.2002
Edition7
Subjects
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
PHYSICS
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Summary:A method and apparatus for recognizing and initializing second level peripherals on busses local to add-on cards. During startup, a personal computer receives an identifier from an add-on peripheral. A driver is executed that initializes the add-on peripheral, and determines whether any peripherals are attached to a secondary bus associated with the add-on peripheral. When a peripheral is identified on the secondary bus, information concerning the peripheral is added to a configuration file.
Bibliography:Application Number: US19990272464