Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!uwvax!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!topaz.rutgers.edu!msmith From: msmith@topaz.rutgers.edu (Mark Robert Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: IRQ numbers Message-ID:Date: 18 Aug 88 16:04:35 GMT References: <15@ <16800339@clio> <394@eecea.eece.ksu.edu> Organization: M. R. Smith Consulting, Tenafly, NJ Lines: 21 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 -- Mark Smith (alias Smitty) "Be careful when looking into the distance, 61 Tenafly Road that you do not miss what is right under your nose." Tenafly, NJ 07670 {backbone}!rutgers!topaz.rutgers.edu!msmith msmith@topaz.rutgers.edu Bill and Opus in '88!!!