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From: berger@clio.las.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Com port vs. floppy drive
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Date: 16 Sep 88 20:50:00 GMT
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Is it possible that you've got one of your serial ports strapped to
use IRQ 5?  That's used by the hard disk in an XT, and would cause
a conflict.

			Mike Berger
			Department of Statistics 
			Science, Technology, and Society
			University of Illinois 

			berger@clio.las.uiuc.edu
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