On Tuesday, June 30, 1998 2:25 PM, cmc@mind.org wrote:>Something I'm actually familiar with. Wow. > >First off, the 3C595 card does *not* support full-duplex at 100mb. >It supports 10mb at half or full duplex and 100mb at half duplex >only! I researched this only 2 weeks ago, check on 3com's site if >you're not convinced. Backing off to half-duplex won't fix this >particular problem, though. The network layer is still going to >go bye-bye. I ended up installing a different card and have not >had a problem since then, and I've done some pretty heavy transfers >that would never have worked with the 3c595. > >My recommendation? Pick yourself up a new card. > >-chris > >Exactly what I went through too. I don't know what's up with 3Com products lately, but they seem to suck :-( Lee Havemann, Comp Ops Dir. HSH Associates (973) 838-3330 Mailto: lee at hsh dot com http://www.hsh.com "My opinions are probably not those of my employer"
Hmm.. I guess if you want a 100Base-T network card AND Windows NT on a fast computer (however you define that!), you should stay away from the 3com 3c595 network card. I did just check on the NT Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) and found the following link indicating that this particular network card would not work properly on fast Pentium/Pentium Pro computers : http://www.microsoft.com/isapi/hwtest/nDetail.idc?CN=3Com&DT=Network%2FLAN&D N=3C595-TX+Faster+Etherlink+PCI&DB=PCI&SP=COMPATIBLE&x=11&y=10 -----Original Message----- From: cmc@mind.org <cmc@mind.org> To: Multiple recipients of list <samba@samba.anu.edu.au> Date: Tuesday, June 30, 1998 1:15 PM Subject: Re: NT Crashes when doing large network file Xfers (3c595)>Something I'm actually familiar with. Wow. > >First off, the 3C595 card does *not* support full-duplex at 100mb. >It supports 10mb at half or full duplex and 100mb at half duplex >only! I researched this only 2 weeks ago, check on 3com's site if >you're not convinced. Backing off to half-duplex won't fix this >particular problem, though. The network layer is still going to >go bye-bye. I ended up installing a different card and have not >had a problem since then, and I've done some pretty heavy transfers >that would never have worked with the 3c595. > >My recommendation? Pick yourself up a new card. > >-chris >