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From: wilko@idca.tds.philips.nl (Wilko Bulte)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: Problems with patchkit 0.2.4
Message-ID: <wilko.743074142@spoetnix.idca.tds.philips.nl>
Date: 19 Jul 93 09:29:02 GMT
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rooij@bashful.isp.cft.philips.nl (Guido van Rooij) writes:

>>So where is sio3?  I know it's there, I was able to use it before.  I
>>think it's odd that it's the last port on the card.  Perhaps this is a
>>problem similar to that which others have seen when using multiport cards.
>>Suggestions would be helpful here, as well.

>I think so. Probably the com_scratch register in the last comport
>is used in some way, and thus breaks the porbing code.

Yep. On an AST/4 the last scr reg is used for interrupt control of the
whole card. See some diffs I've posted a while ago.

Wilko

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