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Note: Ports on a Lynx or Quad port card that are using interrupt
sharing MUST be configured with the /L command line switch
rather than the /I switch. Ports on a Lynx or Quad card that are
not using the shared interrupt but have their own separate
interrupt must be configured with the /I command switch.
’p1’, ’p2, etc. Older notation.
p1 etc are the COM port allocated to each serial port on
the Lynx card. For example if p1 is ’3’, then port 1 on the
card will be accessed as COM3. The COM3 i/o address, ie
the address of the Lynx card port#1, is specified elsewhere
on the CONFIG.SYS file line, using the /A3 switch. The
’p’ places can be empty, indicating those ports on the card
that are not being set up to use the shared interrupt
mechanism.
Defining the ports using 8 separate port numbers is now
equivalent to using 8 single port ’ranges’.
Older notation example:-
/L 300,7,3,4,5,6 Quad port card.
/L 300,7,3-6 Equivalent new notation.
Quad card with Shared Interrupt Status Register at 0300H,
sharing interrupt 7, Quad port#1 is COM3,
Quad port#2 is COM4,
Quad port#2 is COM5,
Quad port#2 is COM6.
Older notation example:-
/L 03A0,3,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 Lynx 8 port card.
/L 03A0,3,2-9 Equivalent new notation.
Lynx card with Shared Interrupt Status Register, SISR, at
i/o address 03A0 hex, interrupt 3 is the shared interrupt,
Lynx port#1 is mapped as COM2
Lynx port#2 is mapped as COM3
Lynx port#3 is mapped as COM4
Lynx port#4 is mapped as COM5
Lynx port#5 is mapped as COM6
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