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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: Can I use IRQ2??
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.203129.22330@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <1992Aug17.153404.18408@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 20:31:29 GMT
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- In <1992Aug17.153404.18408@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> rubin@visual1.jhuapl.edu (Don Rubin) writes:
-
- >I just got a CD drive for my 386/33 ISA bus
- >and have run out of IRQs. Can I use IRQ 2?
- >The installation manual says something about
- >that it can only be used on IBM XT (who uses
- >that anymore :). I don't have a 2nd printer
- >but am using IRQ 5 for my FAX card under
- >windows. Thanks...
-
- If you are using an ISA card to drive your CD (likely), you can use
- IRQ2. This will be automagically remapped to IRQ9 on an AT-bus
- machine (IRQ2 is the Cascade interrupt).
-
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