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Re: Buying a NAS am I doing the right thing?


  • Subject: Re: Buying a NAS am I doing the right thing?
  • From: "Mal Lansell" <mal@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 10:40:01 -0000

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Ian Lowe" <ianlowe@...> wrote:
>
> > Maybe that says something about XP ...
>
> No, it says something about Highpoint and their crappy drivers. It
did
> precisely the same thing on Server 2003 (which I installed as a
recovery
> attempt).
>
> >(was it Home or Pro, btw ?)
>
> Pro, not that it matters in this instance - crash dump analysis
shows
> without a shred of doubt that it's the highpoint driver to blame.
It causes
> a BSOD when it attempts to do a large number of DMA transfers.
>
> I.

Drivers are the cause of almost all Windows crashes.  It must make
Microsoft's coders despair since they inevitably get the blame.

Mal








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