From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Jul 20 18:50:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D643137B636; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 18:50:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA23666; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 21:50:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id VAA51181; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 21:50:25 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 21:50:25 -0400 (EDT) To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=E9rard_Roudier?= Cc: "David O'Brien" , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: alpha snapshots? (was RE: Alphserver 2100 4/233) In-Reply-To: References: <20000720130323.B67647@dragon.nuxi.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14711.43702.903477.277989@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org G=E9rard Roudier writes: >=20 > If I didn't miss something important, and modulo hardware erratas I = donnot > know about, I donnot expect the driver to cause more failures on Alp= ha > than on IA32. > But you must keep in mind that I donnot have Alpha Hardware and am r= elying > on testers for the checking of my statement about SYM reliability on= Alpha > (compared to IA 32). >=20 > Regards, > G=E9rard. G=E9rard, I've been running an 875 in a UP1000 and I've been running an 810 in an AlphaServer 2100 4/200. Both machines have worked very well with the sym driver. Each machine has done several buildworlds, etc. I'm very happy with the sym driver. I think I speak for nearly everyone when I say that it is wonderful to=20= have a well supported driver for the sym family of adapters!=20 Cheers, Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message