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Date:      Mon, 14 Jul 1997 14:43:34 -0500 (CDT)
From:      "M. L. Dodson" <bdodson@beowulf.utmb.edu>
To:        hackers@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: aha1522 ??
Message-ID:  <199707141943.OAA07339@beowulf.utmb.edu>

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> 
> As Amancio Hasty wrote:
> 
> > Do we have an aha1522 expert?
> 
> Many. :-)
> 
> > > I have a strong suspicion that the FreeBSD AHA1522 driver is a little
> > > flaky.
> 
> This is an understatement.  I would call it ``basically unusable''.
> It suffers extensive bit-rot.  I have removed it from the list of
> supported devices in the release notes.
> 

Whoops!  
Doesn't the 1522 use the same driver as the little minimal controller 
that comes with internal SCSI ZIP disks?  I've been recommending that
to people to "gently" introduce them to SCSI (for SCSI tape drives,
for example).  Is this status likely to remain this way?  If so, I'll
have to change my errant ways :)
Bud Dodson

> This should probably be merged into the 2.2 branch as well.
> - -- 
> cheers, J"org
> 
> joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
> Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
> 
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> 

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M. L. Dodson                                bdodson@scms.utmb.edu
409-772-2178                                FAX: 409-772-1790



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