Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!ukma!psuvm.bitnet!mer
From: MER@PSUVM.BITNET (Mary Ramsey)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Kinetics Fastpath hardware bug
Message-ID: <28374MER@PSUVM>
Date: 22 Dec 87 18:19:18 GMT
Organization: The Pennsylvania State University - Computation Center
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I got a call from Kinetics today that they have found a misplaced capacator
that causes random Fastpath crashes on noisy Ethernet lines.  Apparently
Microsoft's 40+ boxes were crashing several times per day, and they demanded a
fix. Ours have been locking up as well, but I had put it down to failure to
reboot on power dropouts (maybe twice per month).  So they will be sending
out a letter explaining the patch (a simple solder job, apparently) or people
can send them back for free (I was not to use the word "recall").  However,
getting the new PROMs is probably a good idea as well.  I will suggest that
the letter be posted to this mailing list as well.
     
Dan Magorian                                            (301) 454-6030
Computer Science Center                                 magorian@umd5.umd.edu
University of Maryland                                  magorian@umdd.bitnet
College Park, MD 20742                                  Applelink: A0190