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From: wbonner@eecs.wsu.edu (Wim Bonner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Parallel Ports and OS/2
Message-ID: <1991Mar24.085133.8746@eecs.wsu.edu>
Date: 24 Mar 91 08:51:33 GMT
References: <7110004@pollux.svale.hp.com>
Reply-To: wbonner@yoda.UUCP (Wim Bonner)
Organization: Washington State University, Pullman
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In article <7110004@pollux.svale.hp.com> jfarley@pollux.svale.hp.com (Jens Farley) writes:
>                        Starting
>      Port Name        I/O address       Interrupt
>      ---------        -----------       ---------
>        LPT1              378h             IRQ 7
>        LPT2              278h             IRQ 5
>
>As long as you can configure your card as above, and it doesn't
>have any hardware design flaws, it should work.
>
>I don't know why, but some card manufactures have opted to scramble
>these characteristics -- for example, the Everex Magic I/O card
>looks like:
>
>       Everex         OS/2
>      Port Name     Port Name     I/O address     Interrupt
>      ---------     ---------     -----------     ---------
>        LPT1          None           3BCh           IRQ 7
>        LPT2          LPT1           378h           IRQ 7
>        LPT3          LPT2           278h           IRQ 5

Just wondering, but where does the port on an IBM (Or Herc) monochrome
card show up?  And how does the other port in the machine work as port 2 
automaticly when that port is in the machine, but If I pull the mono card
it acts as port 1?

Just curious.

Wim.
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