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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
- Subject: Bridgeboard memory address conflict?
- From: stewart.hunt@canrem.com (Stewart Hunt)
- Path: canrem.com!stewart.hunt
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <60.400.4478.0N20D93A@canrem.com>
- References: <4ii4qc$kur@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 21 Mar 96 18:08:00 -0500
- Organization: CRS Online (Toronto, Ontario)
-
- -> I'm adding a 2-Ser/1-Par/1-Game I/O board to one of the ISA slots in
- -> my system for the bridgeboard's use. Appendix B of the A2386
- -> bridgeboard manual lists $02Fx, $037x, and possibly other alarming
- -> memory locations as addresses that expansion cards should not use.
- -> Then they go on to say later in the same appendix that it is possible
- -> to add an I/O board for purpose of adding ports to the PC side of the
- -> system. This would seem to be a contradiction in terms, since
- -> $02F8-02FF is the traditional location of the COM2 serial I/O port,
- -> and $0378-037F is the traditional location of the LPT1 parallel port.
- -> Erg. The situation gets even more complicated by the fact that the
- -> manual also says that the native side LPT1 emulation is one of the
- -> features, like keyboard emulation, that will continue to function
- -> even when the Janus Handler is not loaded. And that would imply that
- -> even though I am not loading the Janus Handler on my setup, I can
- -> still possibly expect problems from this address. Or can I? The
- -> LPT1 native emulation will get out of the card's way, right? Right?
- -> (Please say yes.) And likewise for the other I/O port addresses? I
- -> also note that IRQ3 is listed as an interrupt to avoid even though
- -> that is the traditional IRQ used for COM2/COM4. Can anyone who has
- -> installed an I/O card for a bridgeboard advise me here? They say
- -> it's possible, but they certainly do seem to say a lot of forboding
- -> things that don't make it easy for you, that is, unless all of this
- -> just applies to a bridgeboard that doesn't *have* an I/O card
- -> installed taking over those particular addresses, which I certainly
- -> hope is the case.....
- ->
- -> --
- -> Amiga /// | | "They had a glow-in-the-dark
- -> 040 /// | Brent Busby ("Sequencer") | Santa in their yard.
- -> Santa \\\/// | claevius@prairienet.org | isn't
- -> radioactive, is he? \XX/ | | Cool beans. Nuclear
- -> Santa."
-
- What the C= documents indicate is that COM2 at IRQ3 cannot be used as
- the second serial port, COM3 and COM4 are fine at an unused IRQ, and
- secondly that LPT1: is already used, but you can configure a multi I/O
- card for LPT2: as a second parallel port. Make sure you buy a multi-I/O
- card that allows you to change these settings. While Windows will
- recognize a non-standard COM IRQ, DOS will not unless a BIOS patch is
- applied and then it will work fine. Look for a flexible multi I/O board
- with high speed serial ports.
-
- Regards,
-
- Stewart Hunt
-