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To: donal.tobin@cs.tcd.ie (Donal Tobin)
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Subject: Re: A question for you. 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 11 Jan 95 13:36:02 GMT."
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 06:06:35 -0800
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>and help. I just adore the installation process. NB for a WD8013 the probe
>incorrectly detects when the IRQ is at 2 and falsely reports that it is at
>5, I could have done without having to open up my machine to change
>jumpers, when I eventually figured it out :->.

   This one is my fault; I made the driver a little *too* automatic...it gets
the settings out of card's non-volatile memory. Unfortunately, this means that
if the user doesn't use the 'soft' settings (but rather configures the hard/
jumpered settings) that the autoconfig code in the driver uses the wrong values
(it uses the soft settings). I don't think there is a way around this problem
except to remove the feature from the driver. :-(

-DG