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- From: danm@sempco.UUCP (Dan Mcfarland)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Are there any other ways to assign hardware interrupts ?
- References: <57643@olivea.atc.olivetti.com>
- Message-ID: <danm.0djm@sempco.UUCP>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 18:59:49 CST
- Organization: Sim's Electronic Musicians' Publishing Company
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- In article <57643@olivea.atc.olivetti.com>, chrisg@strobe.ATC.Olivetti.Com
- (Chris Granitz) writes:
- >
- > OK "net.knowledge", here's a question. Are there any other ways to
- >assign hardware interrupts besides using the plugin card jumpers ?
- >
- >I have two hard disks, one is a Conner CP-3024 20meg IDE and the other is a
- >Rodime RO3085S 69meg SCSI. I have been trying to get both of them working
- >at the same time on my OPTi 386-40 motherboard (AMI BIOS 5/5/91). I have
- >tried setting up the IDE drive as the boot drive (C:) and the SCSI as D: and
- >it didn't work. I also tried the reverse and that didn't work either.
- >According to the system information programs I have run, they are both
- >trying to use IRQ 14 (Interrupt Number 76 ADDR=0D88:0117). Everything else
- >looks fine. It seems that if I could get one of them to use another IRQ then
- >both drives would work fine.
- >
- >I have the documentation for the Conner drive but it doesn't say anything
- >about re-assigning the IRQ. There don't seem to be any jumpers for it either.
- >I don't have any documentation for the Rodime. There are 3 jumpers on the
- >SCSI interface card but they didn't seem to change anything.
- >
- >So, does anyone know if there is another way to re-assign the IRQ's ?
- >
- >Any input greatly appreciated. Thanks.
- >
- > --Chris Granitz chrisg@verdi
- >
- Ok, did you check the Resistor Termination Pack?? Make sure that this is on
- the LAST drive in the chain. (I.E. if your SCSI is D:, pack should be here)
-
- Dan Mcfarland
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