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From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>
To: dennis <dennis@etinc.com>
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Subject: Re: Probing deflugalty
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On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, dennis wrote:

> >Dennis, I have a machine with ed0 (ISA), ed3 (PCI), ed4 (PCI)
> >
> >Putting the 'device dev0' in makes sure the code is included, but 
> >numbering starts after the ISA numbers.
> >
> >I'd sure hate it if I was not allowed to use a mixture of PCI and ISA 
> >cards from the same driver type.
> My point here was that if ed0 is already attached that additional ed0
> probes should not be done....

Which is why the PCI numbering must start after the ISA.
Maybe declaring 'device ed0' in the config file is misleading.  Perhaps 
it should be 'device ed' or 'device ed pci'.  After all, declaring
'device ed0' will allow any number of PCI ed cards.

Danny