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- From: ochealth@unixg.ubc.ca (ochealth)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: IRQ2 in OS/2
- Date: 30 Dec 1992 10:09:59 GMT
- Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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- In article <C024L9.Coy@news.iastate.edu> TW.FY4@isumvs.iastate.edu (Timothy I Miller) writes:
- :In article <1992Dec29.195008.13016@mksol.dseg.ti.com>,
- :mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
- :>In <oq6cwB1w165w@tcscs.UUCP> tcscs!zeta@src.honeywell.com (Gregory Youngblood) writes:
- :>
- :>>Can OS/2 use IRQ2?
- :>
- :>>When I set up COM3 to run IRQ2 using:
- :>
- :>>DEVICE=C:\OS2\COM.SYS (3,3e8,2) (4,2e8,5)
- :>
- :>>in the config.sys file, then OS/2 reports:
- :>>Unable to load COM3, Interupt not available, or something like that.
- :>
- :>IRQ2 is actually a cascade to the second interrupt controller.
- :>AT-class hardware will map IRQ2 to IRQ9. I've never tried this in
- :>OS/2, but Windows will insist that you configure that port as IRQ9
- :>rather than IRQ2; does OS/2 perhaps do the same thing?
- :>
- :
- : I have my mouse set up on IRQ 2 and my Scanman on IRQ 11. I
- :haven't had any problems using the two devices at the same time
- :(although this might be expected, since I think IRQ 2 is actually
- :the cascade for IRQ's 9-15 or whatever the upper limit is). I don't
- :know anrthing about configuring the Serial port as IRQ 2, though.
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- I hope he actually SET THE CARD TO IRQ 2 !!!
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- (you can't just edit config.sys to change the IRQ)
- :
- :Timothy Miller
- :
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