From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun May 21 16:37:46 1995 Return-Path: bugs-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id QAA01476 for bugs-outgoing; Sun, 21 May 1995 16:37:46 -0700 Received: from isl.cf.ac.uk (isl-gate.elsy.cf.ac.uk [131.251.22.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA01470 for ; Sun, 21 May 1995 16:37:40 -0700 Received: (from paul@localhost) by isl.cf.ac.uk (8.6.9/8.6.9) id AAA04352; Mon, 22 May 1995 00:37:12 +0100 From: Paul Richards Message-Id: <199505212337.AAA04352@isl.cf.ac.uk> Subject: Re: MAJOR problem with FreeBSD-2.0-RELEASE To: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes) Date: Mon, 22 May 1995 00:37:12 +0100 (BST) Cc: tege@cygnus.com, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199505212029.NAA03831@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at May 21, 95 01:29:05 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 912 Sender: bugs-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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)