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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Multiple serial ports in OS/2
- Message-ID: <1992Nov7.161314.24162@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Date: 7 Nov 92 16:13:14 GMT
- References: <1992Oct30.215341.27686@bmerh85.bnr.ca> <1d937gINN2cf@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> <16849@umd5.umd.edu> <1df0b8INNnpa@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
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- In <1df0b8INNnpa@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> louis@oak.ucsc.edu (Louis Goldstein) writes:
-
- >In article <16849@umd5.umd.edu>, adhir@cygnus.umd.edu (Alok Dhir) writes:
- >|> In article <1d937gINN2cf@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> louis@arapaho.ucsc.edu writes:
- >|> >Most IO cards will allow you to select different IRQs for the com ports. You
- >|> >should see if your card will do this, or get a card that will. OS/2 will NOT
- >|> >support more than 1 device per IRQ on an ISA bus.
- >|> >
- >|> >Louis
- >|>
- >|> What about on an EISA bus?
- >|> --
- >|> ============================================================================
- >|> Al Dhir Technical Consulting Staff
- >|> Internet: adhir@cygnus.umd.edu University of Maryland, College Park
- >|> Bitnet: adhir%cygnus.umd.edu@Interbit (301) 405-1500 * (301) 405-3014
-
- >Don't have any personal experience, but I've been told that both EISA and
- >micro-channel are smart enough to share IRQs.
-
- Yes, but you have to have an EISA *BOARD* as well as an EISA bus. In
- other words, to share interrupts successfully in an EISA machine, you
- will need an EISA serial board as well as an EISA bus. Or that's my
- understanding of the way things work, anyway.
-
-
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