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Subject: Re: Backwards compatibiliy for isa_driver
To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith)
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> > This is not a motherboard problem.  This is a card line decoding problem.
> 
> Agreed, however many modern motherboards work around it by only forwarding
> accesses in the 0x100-0x400 range to the ISA bus.

Urgle.

It's not the responsibility of a mother board to dothis to make it
a "good motherboard".

For a real fix, have a bonfire with all the ISA cards in your town.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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