Re: IRQ reservation

Andrew E. Mileski (aem@ott.hookup.net)
Thu, 12 Dec 1996 23:39:56 -0500 (EST)


> I have two AHA-2940U PCI cards in my Pentium-100 PC.
> Although there seems at least two availble IRQs (11 & 9),
> they tend to SHARE the same IRQ number: both 11 or 9.
> Is it normal or a kinda misconfiguration?

It is not a misconfiguration, and yes it is normal.
PCI allows interrupt sharing between cards (ISA doesn't).

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