Subject: Re: netbooting from a floppy disk bootblock.
To: Simon Burge <simonb@netbsd.org>
From: Matthias Drochner <drochner@zel459.zel.kfa-juelich.de>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/16/1999 13:35:25
[late followup on an old mail about problems with the 3x90x boot ROM]

Yesterday I've fixed a stupid bug in the code - botched
logics in the device recognition made that the io base
address was not set correctly for the 3c905b (it was correct
for the 3c900b). This can lead to hangs if a bit is polled of
course...

Further, there is a nasty hardware bug in many 3c905b chips:
It does only decode the first 4k of the ROM properly, the
rest of the image consists of aliases of that range.
No boot code will fit into 4k, so these cards are basically
unusable for boot ROMs.
The buggy chips have a number ending with -001 on them,
newer ones ending in -002 are OK.

best regards
Matthias