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Re: Are there any other ways to assign hardware interrupts ?

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From: Dan Mcfarland
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
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