Quick question here for owners of SoundBlaster (and SB Pro) and Adlib
(and Adlib Gold) cards:
I own a ProAudio Spectrum card. It needs to use either interrupt 3, 5,
6, or 7. Under DOS this hasn't been a problem because the default (7) is
used by LPT1 which can share it with the PAS card. My IRQ3 is used by my
COM1 port, my IRQ5 is used by my COM3 port, and my IRQ6 is used by my
floppy drives.
My question is this: do these other cards need an IRQ? Which one(s) do
they use? The problem is that OS/2 will not permit any interrupt sharing
so I had to pull my PAS card in order to print. If you own one of these
cards, please post a message letting me know (a) what interrupts will it
allow you to use, and (b) are you using irq's 3, 5, 6, and 7? Most people
should have IRQ5 free, but if you have more than 2 COM ports, you'll also
have an IRQ problem under OS/2.
—Glen