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- From: Andy.Tainter@f615.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Andy Tainter)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: BUG in 0.99[p1] kernel c
- Message-ID: <725836861.AA28902@remote.halcyon.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 00:00:06 -0800
- Sender: UUCP@remote.halcyon.com
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- TT>From: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
- TT>Reply-To: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
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- TT> From: nyet@cco.caltech.edu (n liu)
- TT> Date: 25 Dec 1992 09:05:03 GMT
-
- TT> Cards CAN be connected to the same IRQ.. its just that your system
- won't
- TT> know which one called the interrupt and won't service the right
- card all
- TT> of the time. Under DOS this is occasionally fine, but under Linux
- you wan
- TT> to be able to all of the devices simultaneosly.
-
- TT>No, no, no!!! A thousand times no!!!!! There are real hardware
- TT>problems with doing having more than one card connected to same IRQ.
- In
- TT>the words of Gero Kuhlmann, who posted the following message ONLY
- THREE
- TT>DAYS BEFORE your misinformed posting:
-
-
- You *CAN* have more than one card on INT 2, this is a cascaded int and
- you can have upto 7 (may be 6) devices using it...
-
- That is DOS, maybe linux cannot do that, but the hardware is set upto
- do
- it...
-
- Andy
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