
2 - Hardware Installation
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Determining Current System Settings
When you install a device into your computer, the processor
must have a means of routing information to and from the
device and the device must have a means of gaining the
processor's attention. These are called Input/Output (
I/O
)
addresses and Interrupt Requests
(IRQs
), respectively. The
ISI608 card requires 16 I/O addresses and one IRQ value
which are not used by any other device in your system. When
selecting a unique base I/O address, be sure that the next
address is also unused. To determine your ISI's current
settings, refer to Appendix A and B.
If you are certain that these settings are not already in use,
continue with the hardware configuration and installation. You
can install up to four ISI608 cards into your system. Each card
is shipped with its IRQ set at level 3 and a base I/O address of
200 hex. Check your system’s device settings to see if these
values can be used. If the defaults are already in use, select a
unique IRQ and I/O address and record those values for the
hardware and software installation sections that follow.
Table 2-1.
Recommended Base I/O Address and IRQ Values
ISI608 Card Base I/OAddress IRQ
Initial 8 port board 200h 3
First 8 port upgrade 210h 4
Second 8 port upgrade 220h 5
Third 8 port upgrade 230h 7
Note: If you choose IRQ 3 or 4, you may have to disable a
COM device from your BIOS setup. Also, most 386 or higher
compatible computers will not be able to assign IRQ2 to the
ISI card because IRQ2 is used for slave interrupt control.
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