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- From: reddevil@ix.netcom.com (#10 Ox)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Help with IRQ problem
- Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 18:34:31 GMT
- Organization: Perfect Exposure Photography
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- I have read a number of times: try, if possible to put modem on
- Com-2 and mouse on Com-1. Com 1 has a lower priority for interrupt
- requests than Com 2, and the modem should benefit from this priority.
- TS
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- On Sun, 28 Jan 1996 13:58:35 EST "geoff@zswamp.UUCP (Geoffrey Welsh)"
- posted to "comp.dcom.modems" as mis-quoted herein on the subject "Re:
- Help with IRQ problem" :
-
- >"bonitlee@gpu1.srv.ualberta.ca (Bonita Lee) writes:
-
- >"> Hi, I am posting this for a friend.
- >"> He has just installed an Ethernet LAN at home and
- >"> ran into an IRQ conflict problem.
- >"> He got a Sound card, an internal modem on COM1, a mouse on COM2,
- >"> and the network card, which all required a different IRQ.
- >"> I used MSD and could not find any available IRQ he can use.
- >"> Is it possible to use all the above devices in Windows for WorkGroup
- >"> without disabling the keyboard, floppy, HD etc.?
- >"> Would I be able to use one of the 'reserved' IRQ: 10,11,12 or 15?
-
- >"Yes, by all means, use the higher interrupts if the cards and their drivers -
- >"sometimes drivers won't support all possible card settings! - can use them.
- >"Start by using the higher interrupts on cards with 16-bit connectors, because
- >"8-bit cards can't access IRQs higher than 7.
-
- >"And don't use MSD to get advice on configuring a system; I've seen something
- >"called 'snooper' which does a better job (but nothing's perfect).
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- >"IRQ 5 is usually available on an AT (it is used for hard drive controllers on
- >"XTs other than Tandy 1000s and some bus mice).
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- >"IRQ 7 is usually available (technically, it's assigned to the parallel port,
- >"but DOS doesn't use interrupts for parallel I/O and many cards don't even
- >"bother connecting the interrupt line, causing grief in XENIX/UNIX, NetWare,
- >"and OS/2 environments).
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- >"IRQ 10 should be free.
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- >"IRQ 11 might be used for an Adaptec-style SCSI host adapter.
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- >"IRQ 12 may not be free, depending on whose mouse driver you use.
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- >"IRQ 15 will be used for the secondary IDE channel, if present and enabled.
- >"Otherwise, it'll also be free.
-
- >"--
- >" Geoffrey Welsh, Senior Developer, InSystems Technologies Inc.
- >" geoff@zswamp.uucp, [xenitec.on.ca|m2xenix.psg.com]!zswamp!geoff
- >"USENET has become the sanctuary of the Church of the Perpetually Injured Party.
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