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- From: tgreen@iastate.edu (Todd Greenfield)
- Subject: Re: IRQ2=trouble ?
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
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- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 01:32:36 GMT
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- In <1992Aug31.221919.26799@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> ap149@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jim Lawson, Jr.) writes:
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- >I recently installed a Sony cd-rom and am using IRQ2 for the interface
- >card. When I checked (before cd-rom install) the IRQ status on my 386
- >is shows IRQ2 as a "cascade".
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- >So far, it's been working perfectly. What is "cascade" and am I going to
- >be getting in trouble later ?
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- this should be in a faq - wasn't someone working on one?
- The cascade interrupt is used to connect a second interrupt
- controller to expand the number of irq's available from 8 on
- XT to 16 on the AT. That doesn't mean irq2 is used, though.
- When you set a card to use irq2, its actually using irq9, on the
- second interrupt controller. Bios directs interrupts from irq9
- to the old irq2 interrupt routine, so DOS programs see the interrupt
- as irq2. Windows doesn't redirect it, so irq9 would be the correct
- setting in the control panel.
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- so setting your card to use irq2 is fine.
- Hope that clears it up a bit - if I got anything wrong,
- I'm sure someone will correct me.
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