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- From: istuart@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ian Stuart)
- Subject: Re: IRQ2 or IRQ5
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.124633.19036@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- References: <1993Jan7.122713.17450@walter.cray.com>
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 93 12:46:33 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan7.122713.17450@walter.cray.com> kelly@spyro.cray.com (Matt Kelly) writes:
- >I built a home-brew MIDI interface for my synthesizer setup. When
- >I built it, I had an old PC-XT clone. I hooked up the receiver
- >section of the interface's UART chip (8250) to IRQ2. This worked
- >just dandy.
- >
- >Now I have a 386-SX system. IRQ 2 doesn't work anymore. All docu-
- >mentation I have read has said that IRQ2 is a "cascade" interrupt.
- >WHAT DOES THIS MEAN, AND HOW DO I MAKE IT WORK????
-
- The PC and XT had one IRQ controller chip, driving the interrupt pin on the
- CPU. The AT uses a second IRQ controller, fed through IRQ2 of the first
- chip, to signal the CPU. IRQ5 (formerly the HDD controllers IRQ) is now
- used by LPT2 (normally!)
-
- >
- >In an effort to speed up my success, I rewired the interface so
- >that it would use IRQ5 instead of IRQ2. Still no interrupt response.
- >
- >I took the software I was using on the old system (which I wrote),
- >and re-compiled the .ASM files which handle the interrupts so that
- >they would use IRQ5 instead. Total death.
- >
- >Any help would be appreciated. The system I have is a Goldstar with
- >2 serial, 1 parallel, 1 game port, 40 meg HD, 2 floppy drives, VGA.
-
- What IRQ is the game-port on?
-
-
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- --- Kiz (aka Ian Stuart) istuart@nyx.cs.du.edu
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