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From: "Robbert Kouprie" <robbert@radium.jvb.tudelft.nl>
To: "'Keith Owens'" <kaos@ocs.com.au>,
       "'Maciej W. Rozycki'" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>
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Subject: RE: The buggy APIC of the Abit BP6
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 03:50:10 +0200
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Keith Owens wrote:

> You do not have the data required to (a) detect the problem and (b)
> recover even if you could detect the problem.

Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:

> The reliability of the hardware is next to null.  You are not able to
> recover from that. 

Okay, you guys convinced me that some hardware can suck *really* bad. I
think I'm just going to stop my effort on this, stay with Raphael
Manfredi's hack to avoid most of the hangs on my BP6 for now, and get a
new board ASAP.

Thanks for all the help,
- Robbert Kouprie

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