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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: CMD640b ide controller bug workarounds?
To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert)
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 10:30:13 -0700 (MST)
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In-Reply-To: <199701270331.UAA04555@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Jan 26, 97 08:31:08 pm
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> Well, for PCI, yes.  For VLB, there's no slot identification data
> (which is why, like ISA, it sucks).
> 
> If the Linux code is working around the hardware problem, it probably
> has code to detect it, which you could examine to determine their
> algorithm.

I now have it on good authority that Linux has working chip
detection code.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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