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Re: 2 problems, one solved



>I burned the eproms and indeed the SMC booteprom worked fine. Only the
>3c509B didn't. The PC just refused to see the eprom. We had an old PROM
>for this card (won't boot tftp) and that one was seen by the PC.
>When I inserted the 3C509B prom in the SMC card, it also booted but (of
>course) couldn't find the card.
>My conclusion the card somehow prohibits the inserted prom to be seen,
>maybe because it isn't an `official' prom.
>My question: Am I omitting someting?

Check if you can see all of the EPROM with DOS DEBUG. Some cards don't
take large EPROMs. If it helps, Etherboot can make 8k or 16k EPROMs.



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