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Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2002 23:27:36 -0500
From: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
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Subject: Re: ISA slot detection on PCI systems?
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"Eric S. Raymond" wrote:
> 
> Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>:
> > > Nobody has told me this is a real failure case yet.  To cause a problem,
> > > the situation would have to be that DMI read fails to detect a card in
> > > use in an ISA slot.  It's OK if it reports no slots when all slots are
> > > empty.
> >
> > Well, I just popped in an old 3com 509TP network card (non-PnP) into my
> > main box and dmidecode still failed to show the single ISA slot, only 4
> > PCI and 1 AGP.
> 
> I realize this may sound like a dumb question...but are sure the card works
> and is not just an inert mass o' silicon?  I have couple of 3c509s knocking
> around here myself and I'm not at all sure they're alive.

Yes, it worked.

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						Brian Gerst
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