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From: Robert Withrow <bwithrow@baynetworks.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: SMC 8013BT EEPROM parameters lost
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 1996 11:44:35 -0400
Organization: Bay Networks, Inc.
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J Wunsch wrote:
> 
> wilker@rolle.math.purdue.edu (Clarence Wilkerson) wrote:
> 
> > Now I want to revive the 8013 and I've misplaced the discussion
> > on the net at the time about this problem.
> 
> Should you entirely fail, get back to me in private mail.  I've got a
> collection of WD EEPROM data, and can get you instructions how to
> program the EEPROM off-line (i.e., you need a soldering iron and a few
> electronic devices).

I told this to my two dead cards and they started to shake and
sweat, but they *still* didn't start working.

Still, isn't there some way short of *surgery*.  Perhaps some
holistic or homeopathic software?

-- 
Robert Withrow -- (+1 508 436 8256)
BWithrow@BayNetworks.com