🚀 go-pugleaf

Dimitri Maziuk (emaziuk@alpha2.curtin.edu.au) wrote:
: They're smart enough to handle several ports using single interrupt.
: They're not cheap, though.  [Aside: I assume you've checked that your
: whatever-it-is-on-COM3 doesn't have a jumper to select IRQ]

I've run out of IRQ channels in my system. By the time I've juggled
everything between the mouse and the modem and the network card, the
scanner, the Soundblaster the cdrom and tape backup, there's nothing left.
Some of the stuff is old, and is very limited in what IRQs they can
use. I suppose what I should do is replace them with new ones that
have a bigger range and can use the higher channels. Or replace the
motherboard and go with the new buses. Or go to SCSI. But the problem
with that is juggling the money with the mortgage.

Regards

Henry
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Sydney, Australia.