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From: msmith@topaz.rutgers.edu (Mark Robert Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: IRQ numbers
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Date: 18 Aug 88 16:04:35 GMT
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Organization: M. R. Smith Consulting, Tenafly, NJ
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To: gordon@eecea.UUCP

In article <394@eecea.eece.ksu.edu> gordon@eecea.eece.ksu.edu (Dwight Gordon) writes:

> DO NOT USE IRQ5 if you have an IBM-XT class machine.  The IBM/XEBEC fixed-
> disk adapter uses IRQ5.  On XT class machines there is only one IRQ line
> dedicated for use with any/all parallel printers - IRQ7.
> 
> -- 
> Dwight W. Gordon                                 |       913-532-5600        

Ah, HA!  So, on an XT (true blue), how do I configure a QUADBOARD
(like AST 6pak), to use LPT2: as it's parallel port, without using
IRQ5?
That's what I need to do.  It currently gives me a No such device
error.

Mark
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