Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 10:51:39 -0600 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com> To: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com> Cc: dbhague@allstor-sw.co.uk, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stressed SCSI subsystem locks up the system Message-ID: <200010121651.e9CGpd101060@aslan.scsiguy.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 12 Oct 2000 08:54:14 PDT." <Pine.BSF.4.05.10010120850320.7999-100000@misery.sdf.com>
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>> 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? That I can't say, but 60 different adapters on EISA, VL, and PCI busses and at speeds of Fast, Ultra, Ultra2, and U160 with varying supported bus topologies (legacy narrow, legacy wide, etc) isn't as large a number as you might think, especially over a 7 year period. The problem for me is figuring out how to test all of the different configurations that the driver supports and that is not easy. -- Justin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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