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Re: (ASCEND) Experience with NetWarp128 and NetWarpPro?

At 09:07 PM 6/18/97 -0700, David Youatt wrote:

>Apparently so.  We have a few of the NW cards and have "invested" way
>too much time trying to make them work.  Here are the known problems
>(i.e. - problems known to Ascend) that we have encountered:
>
> - card/driver conflicts with SoundBlaster cards or SoundBlaster
>chips on motherboards, there is apparently a fixed W95 and NT driver
>on Ascend's web site, but you have to wonder about someone who
>knowingly (I assume) releases an ISA card with known (presumably?)
>conflicts with what might be the most common "option" in a PC.

That just does not make any sense. It would _not_ have been
released if this was a known problem - if by some stretch it was
released, then we would have included a "known problems" sheet
with the product.

Drivers to fix this problem were posted on the FTP site on May 8.

> - if the card/driver is told to use an IRQ above 10 (at least one
>version defaults to IRQ 15), it's a crap shoot whether the card or
>system will boot.
>
> - current NT driver/card can get in to a mode where it consumes all
>available cpu cycles.

These are both valid concerns, and we have requested fix dates for each
of these items.

>The Ascend support folks have been very helpful, and very professional
>but I get the sense that they are pretty fed up with the problems 
>these cards have caused.
>
>Our experience is the same as Dick Bailey's.  Ascend have offered
>to buy back the cards which is commendable.  Had we know ahead of time,
>we probably would have bought Pipelines (and enet cards for systems
>w/o them), but I may have a harder time pushing through a PO for more
>Ascend equipment.

PLEASE note that despite these issues, which may be very significant,
there *are* customers using the NW/NWPro without any of them. Tech support
are working on identifying why there is a difference, and will have systems
being setup to replicate as many PC configurations as possible.


Kevin

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