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Re: RE: [ECS] Win2k and I/O Port Byte Scott Danks Mon, 31 Jul 2000 08:53:56 -0500

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 Mon, 31 Jul 2000 08:53:56 -0500
I upgraded my system to windows2000 over the weekend, and immediately when I opened
ecs with my current ecs.cfg, windows said it caused an "Error" and was shutting it down.
 I am using an I/O Card from Quatech (PCB-721) and it has 72 inputs / outputs using
a 8255 (PIO) chip.  I talk to it by setting the base to 300h (768d) and then consective
memory locations are used to set the control (input oroutput) and then read the next
memory location and that is the way to see what inputs are on.   SO, I found that If
I put in the ecs.cfg an item of type I/O port byte and the location is 768, when it
initializes I get this windows error.  Does Windows protect this area of memory from
letting programs write to it like NT does?  I really dont think I'm doing anything wrong.
 Thanks for any help.

Scott Danks.

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