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- From: witr@rwwa.COM (Robert Withrow)
- Subject: Re: Ethernet card
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.150906.1614@rwwa.COM>
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- Organization: R.W. Withrow Associates
- References: <1992Aug10.143910.359@ctr.columbia.edu> <michaelv.713756052@test.cc.iastate.edu>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 15:09:06 GMT
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- In article <michaelv.713756052@test.cc.iastate.edu>,
- michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon) writes:
-
- | Once again: IRQ 2 is _unavailable_ in an AT. [...] Your card,
- | intelligently, reassigns IRQ 2 requests to IRQ 9 if it's put into an
- | AT.
-
- Not entirely correct. The IRQ2 pin (fourth pin from the rear, non
- component side), is *physically* connected to the IRQ9 signal, which
- is connected to the second PIC. (It is true that the second PIC chains
- to the first one throught the IRQ2 signal.) The *software* ``reassigns''
- the interrupt by diddling the second PIC instead of the first when
- it notices that the card was set to interrupt on IRQ2.
-
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- Robert Withrow, R.W. Withrow Associates, Swampscott MA 01907 USA
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