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- From: dhaire@gate.net (doug haire)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.comm,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems
- Subject: Re: New 16550 serial port card: what's wrong?
- Followup-To: comp.dcom.modems,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.comm,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems
- Date: 6 Feb 1996 07:03:54 -0500
- Organization: CyberGate, Inc.
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- jk93@mail.erols.com (jk93@mail.erols.com) wrote:
- : For only $30, a store around here is selling a Precision Instruments
- : High Speed Controller Card (ISA Bus, 16c550), supporting 2 16c550
- : serial ports, an ecp/epp parallel, floppy and game port, etc...
- :
- : 1. ......ISA IDE PORT CAN BE SELECTED AS ENABLED OR DISABLED.
- : PIN DEFINITION DEFAULT OPTION
- :
- : Then there are letters under the pin column, definitions like "ISA IDE
- : PORT EN/DISABLE, default's like "ENABLE (H)", and options like "DISABLE (L)".
- :
- : That's it! If i could, i would disable anything related to IDE drive, since
- : i don't want that interfering with my hard drive or floppy (both driven
- : by controller cards in my pc). But there's nothing at all on this
-
- Sounds like the "ISA IDE PORT EN/DISABLE" is what you want to set to
- "disable". That seems to imply that the IDE functions can be disabled and
- that is what you need to do in order to prevent the conflict you are
- getting with your other controller card. Now, if your other controller
- card is also IDE, you could simply remove that and hook everything up to
- this one.
-
- Try that disable and see what happens.
-
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