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Article #19665Re: Are there any other ways to assign hardware interrupts ?
From: Dan Mcfarland
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 00:59
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 00:59
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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 UUCP -> wupost.wustl.edu!danm@sempco
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!wupost!sempco.UUCP!danm 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 Lines: 32