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Dave Korn wrote:

>   AAAARGH[*]!  FTDIchip are the bane of my life at the moment.  Buggy drivers.
> I hate them so much <spit>.
> 
> [*] - I just got back from rebooting a testrig that locked up due to buggy
> ftdichip drivers at about the twentytwo-hour point into a twentyseven-hour
> testrun.  I am not happy.

Wow. I've been using them too, but have had no problems at all 
(WinXPsp2) from native consoles (no cygwin involved, if that matters). 
Then again, I wasn't trying to run 27 hour tests.

--
Chuck



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