Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 08:54:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com> To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com> Cc: dbhague@allstor-sw.co.uk, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stressed SCSI subsystem locks up the system Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10010120850320.7999-100000@misery.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <200010110527.e9B5RV603276@aslan.scsiguy.com>
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On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: > > Or, you could just replace the Adaptec 3940 with a NCR-875 based card. > >It just seems that the Adaptec cards in general are so picky. The driver > >needs to be updated for the Adaptec chipset rev-of-the-week, and still > >keep working with existing cards. > > This is an unfair characterisation of Adaptec's products. They don't > rev very often, and they aren't "so picky", it is just that the driver > in recent revisions was not adequately tested on the 60 or so different > SCSI card configurations that exist using these chips. That was my > fault, and doesn't have anything to do with the quality of the controllers > or how well they will perform in FreeBSD. Yes, but 60 cards is lot of cards. Perhaps I should have said "card" instead of "chipset". Perhaps, they didn't release them one a week. But how many new cards do you think will be released in the coming year? Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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