Appendix C. IRQ and DMA channel assignments
The following figures list the IRQ and DMA channel assignments.
Table 35. IRQ channel assignments
Note: The default settings for COM 1 (IRQ 4), COM 2 (IRQ 3), and LPT 1 (IRQ 7) can
Table 36. DMA channel assignments
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IRQ
NMI
Critical system error
SMI
System-management interrupt for power management
0
Timer
1
Keyboard
2
Cascade interrupt from slave PIC
3
COM2 (some models only)
4
COM1
5
LPT2/audio (if present)
6
Diskette controller
7
LPT1
8
Real-time clock
9
Video, ACPI
10
MIDI/joystick (A20 models only)
11
Available to user
12
Mouse port
13
Math coprocessor
14
Primary IDE (if present)
15
Secondary IDE (if present)
be changed to another IRQ.
DMA channel
0
8 bits
1
8 bits
2
8 bits
3
8 bits
4
5
16 bits
6
16 bits
7
16 bits
System resource
Data width
Open
Open
Diskette drive
Parallel port (for ECP or EPP)
Reserved (cascade channel)
Open
Open
Open
System resource
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