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- From: Scott.Olson@p0.f1.n302.z86.nutfactory.apana.org.au (Scott Olson)
- Message-ID: <1DBF54EE@nutfactory.apana.org.au>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
- Subject: Re: A2386 and com ports
- Date: 30 Dec 95 00:55:43 GMT+10
- Organization: A.M.i.G.A. User Support Group - Australia
- X-GateSoftware: AmiGate 1.5b (27.9.95)
-
-
- John S. Burger (jsburger@xmission.com) wrote:
- > I have an A2386 BB using a multi I/O card. Floppy, IDE, Game, Parallel and 2
- > Serial. The problem is I can't get the BB to recognize the second serial
- port.
- > All ports/controllers can be disabled and there are jumpers for
- > serial/parallel IRQ's.
- >
- > The problem is that I can't get the BB to recognize the second serial port
- > (COM2/COM4). Available IRQ's for the COM ports are 2,3,4 and 5. The BB manual
- > says to avoid 2 and 3 (COM2/4 default). Neither of these IRQ's work nor does
- > 5. IRQ 4 works fine for COM1/3.
- >
- > So is this a problem with my multi I/O board or the BB. I have a serial mouse
- > connected to COM1 and want to use COM2/4 for a modem. Is this possible and if
- > so how. I am willing to purchase another I/O board if that is the only
- > solution
- >
- > BTW, the IDE controller works fine. I run both Windows 3.1 and OS/2 with no
- > problems.
- >
- > This is not a Windows problem as MSD does not show the second serial port.
-
- It's a problem with the I/O card, it doesn't have enough choices for
- COM2/4 to work with the BB. IRQ 5 must be being used by something else in
- your machine, my BB isn't using it. So, if you can track that down, you
- might be able to move whatever that is to a different IRQ to free up 5 for
- your I/O card.
-
- Scott
-