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From: becker@super.org (Donald J. Becker)
Subject: Re: 8bit/16bit conflicts on ISA
Message-ID: <1993Aug7.184951.18280@super.org>
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Date: Sat, 7 Aug 1993 18:49:51 GMT
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In article <23o2f1$pms@germany.eu.net> bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner) writes:
>
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>In article <CB7026.M5B@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, rb6775@ehsn18.cen.uiuc.edu (Rafal Krzysztof Boni) writes:
>|> 	3. How was this problem solved for the WD 8013 in a similar situation??
>
>I seem to recall someone posted a driver for elite ethernet cards very
>recently and the README said that problem was worked around by re-setting some
>state just before the kernel exit.

My Linux WD8013 (aka SMC Elite 16) driver now disables 16 bit access
mode after each transfer.  This was needed to get soft reboot to work on
all systems.


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Donald Becker					       becker@super.org
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