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- From: tcscs!zeta@src.honeywell.com (Gregory Youngblood)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,,comp.os.msdos.misc
- Subject: Question about Parallel Port, please read
- Message-ID: <RiscwB1w165w@tcscs.UUCP>
- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 92 14:40:50 CST
- Reply-To: zeta%tcscs@src.honeywell.com
- Organization: TCS Consulting Services
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- I've got the BOCA IO 2by4 and am getting ready to install it in my OS/2 system.
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- I would like to run 4 com ports and 2 parallel ports, the full configuration
- for this card.
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- Here is what my configuration will be:
- COM1 IRQ4
- COM2 IRQ3
- COM3 IRQ2
- COM4 IRQ5
- LPT1 IRQ7
-
- That includes all the possibilities of IRQ's supported by the card, but
- doesn't give me LPT2.
-
- In the booklet that comes with it it says:
- Remember that more than one parallel port can be set using same
- IRQ.
-
- I was under the impression that only one IRQ could be used at a time for any
- one port, either LPT or COM.
-
- If I go ahead and set up LPT2 to IRQ7 (in addition to the above configuration)
- will it work? Can I print to LPT1 and LPT2 at the same time? Or am I just
- asking for problems?
-
- I'm expecting the updated BOCA card early next week from BOCA, with the updated
- chips fixing the parallel port bug with OS/2.
-
- Any answers or insight is very much appreciated...
-
- Thanks in advance.
-
- Greg
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