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From: adam@veda.is (Adam David)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: my bug list
Message-ID: <C4K78E.6LL@veda.is>
Date: 27 Mar 93 17:57:49 GMT
References: <1993Feb27.235240.7476@coe.montana.edu> <1mpdb0INNo8a@ftp.UU.NET> 	<DERAADT.93Mar11154207@newt.fsa.ca> 	<1993Mar15.223046.10278@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <DERAADT.93Mar25200858@newt.fsa.ca>
Organization: Veda Systems, Iceland
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deraadt@fsa.ca (Theo de Raadt) writes:

>The ISA bus should get reset. If it is reset, then the WD8013 probe will
>work. This has nothing to do with the ROM matching code.

>My WD8013 card probes on a cold boot.
>It does not probe on a warm boot.

I have seen this problem with a WD8003 card, it automagically fixed itself
after installing Julian's SCSI drivers (aha-1542B). Interesting that a SCSI
driver fixes an Ethernet problem :-)
Perhaps the probe sequence is fixed somehow.

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Adam David (adam@veda.is)