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Re: (ASCEND) Experience with NetWarp128 and NetWarpPro?



At 08:24 AM 6/20/97 -0700, David Youatt wrote:
>> From: Kevin Smith Thursday, June 19, 1997 6:31 PM
>> 
>> 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.
>
>Kevin, help me out here.  In the sentence above, you acknowledge
>the problem by saying that drivers to fix this problem were posted
>to your ftp site (which is true because we found them there), but
>in the previous paragraph, you say the product would not have released
>with this known problem.  None of the cards we bought had "known
>problems" sheet.  If you want them, we have the diskettes that came
>in the shrink-wrapped packages that contain the drivers with the bug.

Problems discovered after the product ships. Patch release submitted to
fix those problems.


Kevin

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