Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 01:13:21 -0400 From: "Jon E. Mitchiner" <jon@minotaur.com> To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@plutotech.com>, <scsi@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: 11980712 CAM snapshot now available. Message-ID: <00a201bdaee6$1ea01280$641146d1@roaming.minotaur.com> In-Reply-To: <199807132327.RAA11828@pluto.plutotech.com>
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Are there any plans to integrate DPT PM3334UW RAID Controller to the CAM drivers in the near future? I realize most of the driver work was developed by Simon Shapiro, but I was wondering if this would happen anytime in the near future. Thanks! Jon > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Justin T. Gibbs > Sent: Monday, July 13, 1998 7:22 PM > To: scsi@FreeBSD.ORG > Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG; stable@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: 11980712 CAM snapshot now available. > > > Complete information about this snapshot may be obtains from: > > ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/cam/README > > or > > ftp://ftp.kdm.org/pub/FreeBSD/cam/README > > The snapshot is currently available in diff form only, but a full > 3.0SNAP binary release should be available on ftp.FreeBSD.org tonight > or tomorrow morning. A release for 2.2-stable should follow a day > later. > > Changes for the 19980712 Snapshot: > > - Ports collection now includes Tosha, cdrecord, and xmcd 2.3. > > - Added devstat(3) and devstat(9) man page. > > - Some bug fixes to the hard-wiring code. > > - Added preliminary Adaptec 174X driver. > > - Aic7xxx driver improvements: > Attempt to read SEEPROM data in both formats before > failing. This should allow the driver to detect a > SEEPROM on many mother board controllers. > > Correct the setting of the SCSIID for ULTRA2 chips > if we can't find a SEEPROM. > > Fix hang in dataphase on Rev B. aic7880 parts. > > Correct some LVD/Ultra2 bugs. LVD support has now been > tested on a 2940U2W with both Seagate Cheetah and > Quantum Atlas II LVD drives. > > Corrected incorrect sync rate setting for all non-ULTRA2 > adapters for rates other than 20MHz or 10MHz. This was > a bug introduced in the last snapshot. > > Fixed a few error recovery bugs. > > Added support for reading the SEEPROM from aic7850 based > cards like the 2910C. > > - Corrected several bugs in the AdvanSys driver's command > completion and timeout handling code as well as fully convert > it to bus_dma. Thanks to John-Mark Gurney for being a patient > tester. > > - Corrected several bugs in the BusLogic MultiMaster driver's > command completion and timeout handling code. Thanks again to > John-Mark Gurney for being a patient tester. > > - Incorperated a few bug fixes from Stefan Esser for the NCR > driver. Some experimental fixes to the QUEUE FULL handler > are also included. > > - QLogic ISP driver integrated by Matthew Jacob > > - Allow the CD driver to attach to WORM devices. > > - Corrected devstat(9) support in the floppy driver. > > - Added support for "short erase" as "mt erase 0". The > sa driver defaults to a "long erase" as is the behavior > of the st driver it replaces. > > - Be smarter about tape devices that lack a compression > page. Corrects a problem reported by Joey Miller where > the driver refused to access an Archive DDS1 drive. > > - Add support for PC98 geometry conversion based on code provided > by KATO Takenori <kato@ganko.eps.nagoya-u.ac.jp>. > > - Mode page editing features have been incorporated into the > camcontrol utility. > > - libcam now knows how to parse arbitrary command strings just > like the old SCSI library. > > - Use 10byte CDBs for CDROM reads and writes. The spec lists > 6byte CDBs as optional. > > - The XPT layer no longer caches sync rate information. Instead > it asks the SIM driver when it wants it. This should ensure that > mailbox based and cards with similar interfaces don't have to > jump through hoops to provide this information via an async > callback. It should make the information provided by the bt > and isp drivers acurate. > > - Fixed several problems in the CAM_GET_PASSTHROUGH xpt ioctl. > > >From Hans Huebner > - Updated the ch(4) driver and chio(1) command to include volume > tag support. These changes have been tested with a Breeze Hill > Q47 DLT and a DEC DLT2500 media changer. The latter has no > volume tag support. > > - The chio(1) command was updated to include various flags to the > status subcommand. These flags can be used to select additional > information to be displayed (like volume tags). > > - A new chio(1) subcommand named 'voltag' has been added > which allows > for changes to volume tags inside the media changer controller. > This could not be tested as the Q47 does not provide the functio- > nality. > > - The ch(4) manual page was updated to include more information > about the reality of this driver. > > - usr.sbin/rmt/rmt.c has been updated to include the V command, > which is used by SGI's xfsdump to verify the rmt servers version > number. > > -- > Justin T. Gibbs <gibbs@FreeBSD.org> > Kenneth D. Merry <ken@plutotech.com> > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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