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Re: IDE & IRQs
From:
Keith Morse <[log in to unmask]>
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PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Thu, 30 Sep 1999 21:50:55 -0700
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On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Harvey Rose wrote:

> 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.

In short yes based on your description.  In general, each ide "channel"
will require it's own IRQ and base I/O address.  Sounds like you've got
two channels.

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