-= Pete Replied to Bill Grimsley about: Latest SDL =-

G'day Bill

 PC> Any idea why USR are doing this or do you think it was just a
 PC> bad batch of Flash Roms.

 BG> USR use two types of flash-ROM chips, Intel and AMD, and it
 BG> turns out that there was a bad batch of AMD devices.

I've read the same thing over in the USR_ECHO, it seems the older
daughterboard models are less likely to have the dud chip in them.

 PC> Intentional or just sloppy SDL control?.

 BG> Purely accidental.  Some of the AMD chips had their higher
 BG> segments internally flagged as "read-only", so when the larger
 BG> SDL tried accessing these segments, the chip shat itself.  RTB
 BG> replacement is the only cure here, BTW.  :(

My comment above was to do with the old early non V34+ SDL being
re-dated and put on the USR sight as the latest Austel SDL.

   -=Pete=-

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