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From: larry@nstar.UUCP (Larry Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: SCO UNIX & Mylex CPU
Summary: arnet board found at boot time
Keywords: Serial port mess
Message-ID: <511246@nstar.UUCP>
Date: 5 Mar 90 11:21:43 GMT
References: <1729@lakesys.lakesys.com>
Distribution: usa
Organization: Northern Star, Notre Dame, IN USA
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In article <1729@lakesys.lakesys.com>, deanr@lakesys.lakesys.com (Dean Roth) writes:
> 
> According to SCO's documents, support for Arnet's board
> is built into the kernel.  Fine, but why does it think
> a board is installed when none is present?

My guess would be that something is residing at the SCO default
address and interrupt for the Arnet board - and the kernel finds
it at boot time and assumes the board is installed in the box.


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