Subject: Re: assertion "cp" failed.
To: Dave Huang <khym@bga.com>
From: Brett Lymn <blymn@awadi.com.au>
List: current-users
Date: 09/06/1996 15:35:33
According to Dave Huang:
>
>Suggestion for the NetBSD 1.2 release: perhaps the default should be to
>have the tags turned off? A note could be included in a README somewhere
>telling NCR users that they can turn tags on for faster performance, but
>it might make their system unstable.
>

Just to add my story of woe here :-)

I had all sorts of problems with a NCR card (a SC200 one) - I could
get the thing to work fine in a 486 motherboard but never in a
pentium in either DOS or NetBSD.  I grabbed another NCR card from a
friend of mine, same chip, damn near the same PCB layout and that
worked first time.  IMHO it seems that sometimes these thing just
don't work in some combinations.

-- 
Brett Lymn, Computer Systems Administrator, AWA Defence Industries
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