I believe that each controller should have a different IRQ.  It's been
that way in every system I've seen.  If you have a Pentium with two IDE
connectors, each one will be assigned a different IRQ.  A third IRQ will
be assigned if you have a sound card with an IDE connector.

----- Original Message -----
From: Harvey Rose <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 5:05 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] IDE & IRQs


> If one installs a harddrive using IRQ#14 & and installs a CDROM IDE
from
> the sound card should these use 2 different IRQs or are they assigned
just
> one?  I'm having trouble putting in an orginial drive in the PS/1,
which I
> was putting in the ACER 18X, I get an error 10 in Windows 98 from the
> driver detail.

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