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To: David Dawes <dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au>
cc: SimsS@Infi.Net (Steve Sims), hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Some recent changes to GENERIC 
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From: David Greenman <davidg@root.com>
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Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 07:20:52 -0700
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>>(For my benefit, can anyone explain why the default port address for ed0
>>is 0x280?  I assume some historical reason, but I really don't know the
>>details....)
>
>It is a common default for WD/SMC cards, which also use the ed driver.

   So is 0x300. There's even a hard jumper to select it, and I think the
WD/SMC cards are even set to 0x300 out of the box.

>>OK, how 'bout this:  I'll endorse nuking the ed1 device, but only if the
>>default settings for the ed0 device are changed to 5/300 in GENERIC.  What
>>say?
>
>No!

   Erm, why? 0x300 is a better default.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project