From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 26 07:56:35 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id HAA24995 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 26 Dec 1996 07:56:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from rhiannon.clari.net.au (dns1.clari.net.au [203.27.85.9]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id HAA24990 for ; Thu, 26 Dec 1996 07:56:32 -0800 (PST) Received: (from peter@localhost) by rhiannon.clari.net.au (8.7.5/8.6.12) id CAA00540; Fri, 27 Dec 1996 02:56:19 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 0.4 [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199612261342.AAA24579@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Date: Fri, 27 Dec 1996 02:54:04 +1100 (EST) Organization: ClariNET Internet Servies From: Peter Hawkins To: Michael Smith , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help with sb Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Thankyou for those who helped. It was indeed the interrupt clash. Moving my ed1 to irq 9 via 2 freed up irq 5 for sdn0 and it works fine. For the record, it seems that dos does not use the printer's irq properly hence it is possible to steal irq 7 (according to those who helped me). In FreeBSD it is not valid to do this. Peter ---------------------------------- Peter Hawkins E-Mail: Peter Hawkins Ph: 61 3 9852 7340 ClariNET Internet Services http://www.clari.net.au ----------------------------------