On Wednesday 30 August 2006 20:18, Timothy Miller wrote: > Possibly, Traversal would hire resellers in various places around the > world. Resellers could receive cards directly from the manufacturer > (those who populate the board with components), and the reseller would > be responsible for programming and testing the boards. Policies and > procedures would be in place to deal with bad boards. >
In my experience, fixed function tests *must* be done at the manufacturer. I recall the time when we sent palette of units over to the States to fulfil an urgent request, only to receive the whole lot back because someone had fitted a diode the wrong way round to *every* *single* *one*, and they'd shorted out on being powered up. We charged them for the repairs: they'd demanded we skip a *lot* of our quality-control processes in order to get them out of the door a day and a half earlier. However, I agree that resellers could load region-specific PROM images, and that would solve a lot of problems like r13n of the video BIOS, for example. In fact, wasn't one of the suggestions that people who have particular requirements should contact their reseller to get a board customised for them? Going back to the fixed frequency monitor controversy (sorry), from the customer's point of view it's much better to ask the reseller to set up the configuration they require. That way, if it blows their monitor up it's clearly not their fault! In addition, *I'd* much rather pay £5 for the reseller's services than pay £30 for a SPI programming board I'd use only once (better for the environment too). Though I think some sort of SPI programming tool is definitely going to be useful, even if only for resellers and Hardcore Hardware Hackers. Peter -- Fisher Society publicity officer http://tinyurl.com/o39w2 CUSBC novices, match and league secretary http://tinyurl.com/mwrc9 Quake II build tools maintainer http://tinyurl.com/fkldd v3sw6YChw7$ln3pr6$ck3ma8u7+Lw3+2m0l7Ci6e4+8t4Gb8en6g6Pa2Xs5Mr4p4 hackerkey.com
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