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- From: chbl@sbustd.rz.uni-sb.de (Christian Blum)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: IRQ sharing (was: Re: Vertical Retrace interrupt?)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.174456.19001@coli.uni-sb.de>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 17:44:56 GMT
- References: <1992Aug11.124619.9641@zooid.guild.org>
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- Ross Ridge <ross@zooid.guild.org> writes:
- > Ross Ridge <ross@zooid.guild.org> writes:
- > >This is true of any type of card, no two devices on the ISA bus can
- > >generate the same IRQ.
- >
- > tmkk@uiuc.edu (Khan) writes:
- > >Really? Then why can my COM1:, which is on the motherboard, coexist with
- > >my COM3:, which is on a separate modem card? Both generate IRQ4.
- >
- > Because you never use them them at the same time. If your modem and
- > on-board serial port generate IRQ4 at the same time they'll short each
- > other out.
- >
- > >>The problem is electrical, because of the way the ISA bus is designed
- > >>you risk serious damage if two devices on the bus share the same interrupt.
- > >
- > >What's your source for this?
- >
- > It's a well known limitation of the IBM PC bus.
-
- Has anyone any idea who is responsible for the interrupt design of the
- PC bus?
-
- Anyway, you can fool him. Simply connect the interrupts via diodes to the
- bus and solder a resistor (say, 470 ohms) from there to ground. It works
- fine, as long as the software knows that it has to check all possible
- interrupt sources to find out which one has triggered the int.
-
- Chris
-
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