Subject: Re: WD8013 died
To: Scott Bartram <scottb@orionsoft.com>
From: Tracy Di Marco <gendalia@iastate.edu>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/05/1995 21:39:11
}> I've done this but no luck here either. I've booted straight to DOS and
}> run the SMC diagnostics with no response. This card is major-league dead.
}not "dead" -- just most software won't talk to it.
}Charles had a program to fix it, that he wrote when the problem was
}initiall encountered.  I couldn't find it in my mail archives or the
}NetBSD mail archives, but i didn't look too hard.  _somebody's_ gotta
}have a copy...

I had my SMC card die back then, but I just called SMC, shipped it back,
and less than a week later recieved a working replacement.  I thought it
was amazing support for a card I'd bought used.  (And they even offered
me a job when I managed to coherently describe the problem.) :)

Tracy