Subject: Re: kcadp12.fs still corrupts SMC8000
To: Simon J. Gerraty <sjg@frodo.dn.itg.telstra.com.au>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/08/1996 12:37:46
"Simon J. Gerraty" writes:
> Tried booting 1.2 off the kcadp12 floppy on a machine here.
> Looked fine - though it didn't find the ethernet as I recall and I got
> a lot of soft errors reading the floppy (which was written by 1.2
> running on a sun4c).
> 
> Anyway when I went to boot DrOS again, the SMC8000 driver said the
> cards RAM started at an illegal boundary.  Sure enough ezsetup showed
> the card with a rather invalid set of NVRAM contents.
> 
> Is this still the ie driver?  Would it not be a good idea to have a
> boot floppy that did not include it?

There are a number of such things.

I think what we really need is a productization of the userconfig
stuff Jason was working on a long while back.

Perry