Comment 265 for bug 263555

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In , Martin-wilck-d (martin-wilck-d) wrote :

Sorry to interfere, our ESX expert told me that under ESX 3.5 it wasn't necessary to have processes _writing_ to the EEPROM for this problem to occur. Rather, it happened if two processes were just _reading_ the EEPROM at the same time, due to a broken locking bit in the HW of some NICS (82546, that's what I was told).