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Date:      Mon, 22 May 1995 00:37:12 +0100 (BST)
From:      Paul Richards <paul@isl.cf.ac.uk>
To:        rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes)
Cc:        tege@cygnus.com, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: MAJOR problem with FreeBSD-2.0-RELEASE
Message-ID:  <199505212337.AAA04352@isl.cf.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <199505212029.NAA03831@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at May 21, 95 01:29:05 pm

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In reply to Rodney W. Grimes who said
> 
> Brand new means little with Bus Logic, and the time it takes for new versions
> of the board to trickly through the distribution channel.  I have found my
> old versions of the cards to actually work better then the newer versions!!
> [Just ask Jordan, he had a nightmare with the latest version of cards from
> Bus Logic, so have I, basically can't get the d*mn things to work with
> several of my newer motherboards, and due to lack of Bus Logic's technical
> support have shit canned the whole product line :-(]

Brand new can actually mean broke :-(

It took me ages to get my 946C working on a Plato motherboard and in the
end I got it to work by using *older* firmware!

-- 
  Paul Richards, Bluebird Computer Systems. FreeBSD core team member. 
  Internet: paul@FreeBSD.org, http://www.isl.cf.ac.uk/
  Phone: +44 1222 874000 x6646 (work), +44 1222 457651 (home)



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