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From: tritsche@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Stefan Tritscher)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Conflicting interrupts!
Keywords: interrupt,gendev
Message-ID: <3338@tuminfo1.lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de>
Date: 10 Jul 90 20:57:15 GMT
References: <520@al.ele.tue.nl>
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In article <520@al.ele.tue.nl> blitter@ele.tue.nl (Paul) writes:
> ... I have recently installed a Wangtek PC36 controller in
>my Interactive 386 system and I had to remove the lp driver to use 
>interrupt 7 for the tape. This means that I can use the tape now but
>not the printer. Apparently interrupt 5 is used by gendev, what is
>this device and can I remove that line from the configuration file
>for gendev.

Gendev is the "fast filesystem disk driver" of ISC (maybe it stands for
"generic device").
I think, interrupt request 5 is only used, if you have a SCSI controller.
If you dont, you should reconfigure the high performance disk driver
using kconfig. After that proceduere you can use IRQ 5 for another device.

Hope this helps, Stefan
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