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To: "Serge G. Kruk" <sgkruk@barrow.uwaterloo.ca>
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Subject: Re: Digiboard PC/8i 
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From: "Eric L. Hernes" <erich@lodgenet.com>
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"Serge G. Kruk" writes:
>Can anyone help?
>FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE #1: Sat Apr  5 05:33:13 EST 1997
>    root@myname.my.domain:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC
>CPU: Pentium (166.19-MHz 586-class CPU)
>  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x52c  Stepping=12
>  Features=0x1bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8>
>real memory  = 33554432 (32768K bytes)
>avail memory = 30515200 (29800K bytes)
>
>dgb0: PC/Xi 128K
>dgb0 at 0x320-0x323 maddr 0xd00000 msize 131072 on isa
>dgb0: BIOS download failed
>           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>Why would it failed?  Any idea?  ??????????????????

because 128k is an awfully large chunk to be asking for.
On at least one of my motherboards, I have to change the
bios to allow a hole for even the 64k Digi's.  Is any
other card using a maddr between 0xd00000 and 0x1000000?
what does the rest of dmesg say?


>Thanks
>
>Serge
>

eric.
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