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P.S.
 
> This problem is solved. Matt Jacob gave me a gentle nudge in the right
> direction which led to the solution. By adding additional wait-states to
> the PCMCIA controller chip's memory window mapping for the Netwave card
> on the 560E the write-corruption problem disappeared.

Also credit Kenjiro Cho who had also earlier theorized that the PCIC chip
might somehow be involved. (I was too sold out on my own theory of cache
corruption at the time to listen to him; sorry KJ!)

Fred
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