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From: dwhite@anshar.shadow.net (Don Whiteside)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: IRQ 9 unsafe?
Date: 3 Jul 1995 11:57:14 -0400
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Nick Sayer (nsayer@quack.kfu.com) wrote:
: I suspect, however, that the problem
: might simply have been attempting to make use of IRQ 9, which I
: believe has some other use in ISA PCs. Anyone have any words of
: wisdom on this subject?

  IRQ 9 is indeed a cascaded IRQ 2.

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