At 02:45 PM 03/24/2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Richard Hodges wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the tip on the XL driver. Over the years, I have seen
> > many questions about which driver/card was the best, and all the
> > answers were pretty vague, or suggested that Intel had the edge.
>
> Yes. It's currently my understanding that the xl driver is indeed
>as reliable and as fast as the fxp. I know what your saying though. The
>fxp has been touted as the fastest. Years ago it was the de driver for DEC
>cards that was the screamer, then it became the fxp, but the xl driver is
>just as fast.
thats not true at all. We have traced many of our heavily loaded customers
problems to the XL driver. Replacing them with intels solved the problems.
But for general use you are probably correct.
Db
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