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Date:      Thu, 9 Oct 1997 17:21:20 -0500
From:      Karl Denninger  <karl@Mcs.Net>
To:        dg@root.com
Cc:        Karl Denninger <karl@Mcs.Net>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NFS cache problem in 3.0 SNAP
Message-ID:  <19971009172120.63627@Mars.Mcs.Net>
In-Reply-To: <199710092213.PAA05361@implode.root.com>; from David Greenman on Thu, Oct 09, 1997 at 03:13:12PM -0700
References:  <19971009135128.24005@Mars.Mcs.Net> <199710092213.PAA05361@implode.root.com>

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On Thu, Oct 09, 1997 at 03:13:12PM -0700, David Greenman wrote:
> >Anyone working on the problem with the "ed" driver in that 16-bit SMC cards
> >don't reset properly on a softboot any more?
> 
>    That has also been fixed:
> 
> ----------------------------
> revision 1.122
> date: 1997/10/03 16:26:15;  author: davidg;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -6
> Backed out part of a previous change: don't set ZWS on '790 chips; it has
> shown to be harmful in that it results in the card not being detected
> properly on warmboot due to the station address failing to be read
> correctly from the NVRAM.
> ----------------------------
> 
> -DG
> 
> David Greenman
> Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project

I stand corrected; when I rebooted immediately after building the kernels
and reloading, it didn't work.  I just reset one of the machines and now it
does, so it appears that once the kernel with the fix is loaded, its ok.

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