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  2. From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
  4. Subject: Re: OS2 and Soundblaster
  5. Message-ID: <1992Sep8.153208.23850@njitgw.njit.edu>
  6. Date: 8 Sep 92 15:32:08 GMT
  7. References: <9209031148.AA23388@tortoise.cis.ohio-state.edu> <harris.715888758@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu> <1992Sep8.135511.12879@phillip.edu.au>
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  9. Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.
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  13. In article <1992Sep8.135511.12879@phillip.edu.au> t9014201@phillip.edu.au writes:
  14. >
  15. >I just bought a SoundBlaster clone.  A "ThunderBoard".
  16. >Ive set it to IRQ5 (and IRQ7 and 2, during my experimentation), but for some
  17. >reason it will only run SOME SB programs.
  18. >Under raw DOS everything works fine, but a testing program that came with 
  19. >the card can't seem to use DMA 1 under OS/2.
  20. >It's all rather puzzling.
  21.  
  22. It may be your test program.  The SoundBlaster test program that came
  23. with my SoundBlaster 1.5 failed the DMA and IRQ tests.  The one that
  24. came with my brother's SoundBlaster 2.0 worked fine.  (On my SB 1.5
  25. board)
  26.  
  27. I'm configured to DMA 1, Port 220, and IRQ-5.
  28. -- 
  29.    |)  David Charlap           "TELEPHONE, n.  An Invention of the devil which
  30.   /|_  dic5340@hertz.njit.edu   abrogates some of the advantages of making a
  31.  ((|,)                          disagreeable person keep his distance."
  32.   ~|~                              --- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
  33.