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Re: Failure to find EPROM on NIC



Mike Rushford writes:
 > Maybe the board can only read the first 16K of the 32K eprom?

If rom-scan detects a 32kB EPROM, it will run a checksum over the
entire 32768 bytes. The checksum algorithm is rather brain-dead, but
in reality it should suffice to detect if an image is only partly
accessible.


Markus

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