> Yes, I know that, and PLX has told me that these bits are hardwired once
> the BIOS has programmed it.
Once the BIOS has programmed it? It should be hard-wired even before
the BIOS touches the register for the first time. :-)
> I have a question though: if it is a hardware problem, then why does the
> card correctly allocates the base address 2 as MEMORY under Windows NT and
> DOS ?? It's at least intriguing that this allocation _only_ fails on Linux
> ...
>
> It if was a hardware problem, I would expect the problem to happen in
> _any_ OS.
Huh, this is real black magic ... how was it tested under DOS? Using
a DOS driver for the card?
Have a nice fortnight
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