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- From: claevius@firefly.prairienet.org (Brent Busby)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
- Subject: Re: Bridgeboard memory address conflict?
- Date: 22 Mar 1996 03:51:28 GMT
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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- Stewart Hunt (stewart.hunt@canrem.com) wrote:
- : What the C= documents indicate is that COM2 at IRQ3 cannot be used as
- : the second serial port,
-
- What about COM2 that's been changed to use IRQ5 instead? I really
- *need* COM2, since my video card is grabbing the memory port that
- COM4 exists in. I'm going to be running both a modem and a mouse,
- and as far as I know, that means I'm going to be needing one odd
- *and* one even numbered COM port. The assanine ATI UVGA card grabs
- the memory address that COM4 lives in, and that leaves me with only
- COM2 for the even numbered port, which the bridgeboard manual lists
- as a reserved address. That's bad.
-
-
- : While Windows will
- : recognize a non-standard COM IRQ, DOS will not unless a BIOS patch is
- : applied and then it will work fine.
-
- What about some of the better MS-DOS comm programs like Telix? Can it
- recognize non-standard IRQ settings for COM ports without a BIOS extension?
- And could such a BIOS extension successfully be installed in a system where
- a SCSI host adaptor card is already adding a BIOS extension of its own?
-
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