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From: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp>
To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu>
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Subject: Re: Tyan problems
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On Wed, 19 Jun 1996, Chuck Robey wrote:
> > I was going to order a custom machine with a Tyan Tomcat. Today
> > the shop told me to pick a different motherboard because they're
> > having problems with their Tyan Tomcats and had to send them all
> > back to the factory. This includes dual, no-dual, 256K and 512K
>
> I can't understand why you'd say this, my Tyan Tomcat is running FreeBSD 
> like a champ, I'm reall happy with it.  32Megs with 512K cache, using 
> Tyan's (NCR) scsi card.

Maybe Tyan's been having a quality problems.  I have a Tyan Tempest II
that works fine, I only have 2 bus mastering adapters in it.

The new ASUS P6 MBs look promising.  Is anyone using one yet?

-mike