IRQ conflict on SCO Open Desktop

Wm E. Davidsen Jr davidsen at sixhub.UUCP
Sun May 27 13:37:04 AEST 1990


In article <6119 at scorn.sco.COM> wul at sco.com writes:

| /--
| | Neither the tape controller nor (I think) the Ethernet controller can have an
| | IRQ greater than 7.
| | 
| | In summary:
| | 
| | Is IRQ2 usable with SCO Unix? 
| \--
| 
| Yes.  The standard configuration for network cards used internally
| with TCP/IP (3c501s, 3c503s, WD8003s) is IRQ2.

  Right on! This buys you one more interrupt than many of the other UNIX
versions support.
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