As I've noted, our NCR driver really, truly sucks. The right fix is
for someone to rewrite it. No amount of kludging with it is going to
fix the thing.

.pm

Cliff Romash writes:
> After some further thinking and experimentation, I've come to the
> conclusion that the problem that we are having here at GTE is caused by
> using a serial console! A particular machine will reliably reboot with a
> graphics console, but fail with a serial console.
> 
> The choice of disk drive also seems to affect this. Machines with Seagate
> ST34501W exhibit the problem, while a machine with a ST32155W have not
> seen the problem over several months.