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Re: Linux 1.2.8 sudden death - SMC the cause?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (H. Peter Anvin)
Thu May 25 16:04:35 1995
To: submit-linux-dev-net@ratatosk.yggdrasil.com
From: hpa@asgard.yggdrasil.com (H. Peter Anvin)
Date: 25 May 1995 18:53:13 GMT
Reply-To: Peter.Anvin@linux.org (H. Peter Anvin)
Followup to: <m0sEfcS-000xAdC@hq.jcic.org>
By author: dhollis@hq.jcic.org (Daniel Hollis)
In newsgroup: linux.dev.net
>
> This is an SMC Ultra. It's being _auto detected_ by the WD code. The SMC
^^^^^^^^^ ^^
> is a 16 bit card, in a 16 bit slot.
>
The SMC Ultra has a separate driver, and the WD 80x3 driver should not
be used with it. This is almost certainly your problem. I suspect
your kernel has the WD 80x3 driver compiled in, but not the SMC Ultra
one. You need a kernel with the SMC Ultra driver compiled in.
/hpa
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