re soundblaster irq and port settings in article pdb kilimanjaro jpl nasa gov pdb ipl jpl nasa gov paul bartholomew writes when two or more devices in an isa bus pc share an interrupt it s because they re implemented by a single card interesting would you care to explain to me then how my soundblaster pro card and my printer card are sharing irq successfully i assure you that they are both set to irq and that i have no problem my computer is a dtk ibm clone paul bartholomew pdb ipl jpl nasa gov you can configure devices for the same irq as long as you don t use them simultaneously under dos at least both lpt and sb just sit there until you tell them to do something you can t configure a soundblaster for irq if you got an ethernet card which hits that irq a thousand times or so per second markus
