Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 21:59:12 +0100 (CET) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: groudier@club-internet.fr (Gerard Roudier) Cc: winter@jurai.net, scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NEWS: SYM53C1010 and Ultra3 support Message-ID: <199911252059.VAA02714@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.991125223709.570A-100000@localhost> from Gerard Roudier at "Nov 25, 1999 10:52:52 pm"
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As Gerard Roudier wrote ... > > Isn't there a way to have sym understand both old and new chips, with the > > new chips result in a full featured driver, whereas at the same time > > the older chip revs run in 'compatibility mode'. Or does this introduce > > too much bloat? > > There is no way from me for either developing or maintaining the driver > you seem to want to have and I will _never_ use such a driver since I > know of either the complexity=less reliability or the lacking of feature > support such a driver would suffer of. OK, that is clear. > If such a driver ever comes from another source, this will not be a > problem for me at all, as you can guess. > > Don't misunderstand: I think getting a better NCR driver is an excellent > > development! > > I do misunderstood all of your postings, and btw, if the ncr driver would Please!! I am not attacking anyone, especially not you. <Sigh> > have appeared to me way broken or too much under-featured I would have It is my impression, but I could be wrong (read the freebsd-scsi archives) that the complexity and/or difficulty of the ncr driver was spurring the development of a successor (sym). > NCR has sold its micro-electronic department since about 7 years IIRC. > Advertising NCR when talking about the SYM53C8XX family does not make > sense since years. SYMBIOS ingenieers have done a _great_ job in the > enhancement of the 53C8XX family and AFAIK the SYMBIOS brand name still > exists (you may have a look at LSILOGIC site). I know. And we almost lost Symbios to Adaptec too. Fortunately that did not happen. Wilko -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands - Powered by FreeBSD - |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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