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- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
- Path: sparky!uunet!dcatlas!joet
- From: joet@dcatlas.dot.gov (Joe Trott)
- Subject: Re: Another Multiple COM Port Problem
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.155620.22869@dcatlas.dot.gov>
- Organization: U.S Dept. of Transportation
- References: <1992Aug22.120746.14717@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 15:56:20 GMT
- Lines: 18
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- grund@pyrite.som.cwru.edu (Victor Grund) writes:
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- >My setup:
- >Gateway 486/33 ISA-bus (i.e. no interrupt sharing)
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- >IRQ 4 03F8 COM1 (to serial mouse)
- >IRQ 3 02F8 COM2 (to external modem)
- >IRQ 5 02E8 COM4 (internal data/fax modem card)
- >IRQ 2 Sound Blaster Pro (default addr/dma).
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- Even on ISA, COM4 should be able to share IRQ3 with COM2 (I've shared
- IRQ4 among COM1 & COM3 on several systems).
- Worst case: buy a bus mouse and put _it_ on IRQ5, leaving 3&4 for your
- modems on COM1 & COM2.
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- -JTT
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