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- From: zatar@dadstoy.gbdata.com (Terry Stockdale)
- Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer,comp.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
- Subject: Re: IRQ2 or IRQ5
- Message-ID: <zvtTrAsDBh107h@dadstoy.gbdata.com>
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 93 09:06:43 -0600
- References: <1993Jan7.122713.17450@walter.cray.com>
- Organization: Lots of little files on drive D:
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- In <1993Jan7.122713.17450@walter.cray.com> kelly@spyro.cray.com (Matt Kelly) writes:
- >HELP!!!!
-
- >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????
-
- >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.
-
- >Thanks in advance,
-
- >Matt K.
- >==============================================================================
- >kelly@els.cray.com | Cray Research, Inc.
- > |
- >Opinions expressed herein are just | "The world's fastest supercomputers".
- >that. |
- >==============================================================================
-
- That's "cascade" as in falls into a bunch of pieces. The IRQ2 was split
- at the time of the AT (I think) to provide more interrupts for use. Eight
- bit cards still can't use the bigger numbers, but I understand that the
- 16bit cards that need interrupts can do so.
-
- According to my new motherboard's manual, here they are:
-
- IRQ 2 |--IRQ 8 Realtime clock interrupt
- |--IRQ 9 INT 0AH
- |--IRQ 10 Reserved
- |--IRQ 11 Reserved
- |--IRQ 12 Reserved
- |--IRQ 13 Coprocessor
- |--IRQ 14 Hard Disk
- |--IRQ 15 Reserved
-
-
- --
- __
- "Even if you're on the right track,
- you'll get run over if you don't move." --Will Rogers.
-
- terry@dadstoy.gbdata.com Terry Stockdale Houston, Texas
-