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In article <3145A85F.59B8@baldcom.net> Steven Hoke <shoke@baldcom.net> writes:

> Leonard N. Zubkoff wrote:

>>>   I wasn't even aware that there was an F revision of the BT946C. Any idea
>>>   what was changed on that from the E to the F revision? 
>> My understanding is that the only difference between the Revision E and F
>> cards is that one of the three firmware/BIOS sockets is no longer present
>> on the revision F.  It seems this chip/socket was never actually used for
>> anything, so it was finally removed in the latest revision.  It was left
>> empty on the Revision E boards I have which I think led some customers to
>> worry that something was missing from the board.

> That can't be right. I have a Rev E board, and it has all three sockets
> populated, and it arrived directly from BusLogic. I've since updated the
> BIOS, and they sent all 3 chips. There's never been an empty socket on
> the board. Maybe its something else.

Some Rev E boards were done with a dummy bios chip early on, before they
made the decision not to provide that; also, about 6 months ago, they were
sending out the 3-chip upgrades (with the dummy bios chip).  They have
since stopped doing that except in the case where someone is upset about
not having a chip in the unused socket.

Rhia