[...]

>If anyone has any way to fix the NCR driver (probably rewriting it?) I
>would be astonishingly grateful. Indeed, I've frequently offered a
>bottle of fine single malt scotch for anyone willing to redo the NCR
>driver...

The FreeBSD people claim their NCR driver is "rock-solid".  Has ours
diverged that significantly?  Weren't the NetBSD and FreeBSD versions
being developed in parallel by the same guy, for awhile?

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