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Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 20:42:03 -0600
To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Subject: Re: Yet another Adaptec 2940UW problem :(
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At 11:34 AM 4/23/97 +0930, Michael Smith wrote:
 
>We concluded that the Adaptec parts must be more of a bitch
>to work with, and/or harder to get accurate data on.  Certainly some of
>their newer parts (eg. the aic7860) appear fairly braindead.

Isn't the AIC7860 one of the ASICs they "inherited" when they bought
Future Domain? This may have something to do with the problem.

In the meantime, which is the fastest PCI adapter for which there's really
solid code?

Oh.... And is there any code in the SCSI drivers for target mode? Just got
a call to do a fairly fancy SCSI peripheral, and a stripped-down FreeBSD
would be just the thing to run it.

--Brett