Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!philmtl!philabs!crpmks!garyb
From: garyb@crpmks.UUCP (Gary Blumenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: IRQ conflict on SCO Open Desktop
Message-ID: <1184@crpmks.UUCP>
Date: 31 May 90 03:32:09 GMT
References: <6119@scorn.sco.COM> <1036@sixhub.UUCP> <1990May27.183959.18120@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Reply-To: garyb@crpmks.UUCP (Gary Blumenstein)
Organization: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
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A bunch of you wrote:

>>| | 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.
>
>Not really.  ISC will work with IRQ2.
>
>Both ISC and SCO Unix require that you call it something else though.




Add SCO Xenix to the list as well.  If I'm not mistaken, the Xenix tape driver
allows software mapping of interrupt 2 for certain tape controllers.


-gb
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Gary M. Blumenstein, UNIX Network Administrator // CIBA-GEIGY Corporation USA
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