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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!anshar.shadow.net!anshar.shadow.net!nobody From: dwhite@anshar.shadow.net (Don Whiteside) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: IRQ 9 unsafe? Date: 9 Jul 1995 14:56:32 -0400 Organization: Shadow Information Services, Inc. Lines: 9 Message-ID: <3tp8p0$ofe@anshar.shadow.net> References: <gztQkHQ@quack.kfu.com> <3t940q$cf4@anshar.shadow.net> <3tc4dn$9k2@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> <3tgef8$ffn@solaris.cc.vt.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: anshar.shadow.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] : Jeff Aitken (jaitken@csugrad.cs.vt.edu) wrote: : : Don Whiteside (dwhite@anshar.shadow.net) wrote: : : : IRQ 9 is indeed a cascaded IRQ 2. : : Pardon my ignorance, but what exactly does that mean? I'm sorry - I didn't mean to lapse into technospeak, just to answer the question of whether or not IRQ 9 was used. Thank you Carl for a very nice explanation.