Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 22:58:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@internetcds.com> To: wayne@msen.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BusTek/BusLogic/Mylex driver Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.980727225747.5085B-100000@schizo.cdsnet.net> In-Reply-To: <m0z12NL-0003cUC@ilium.troy.msen.com>
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Get DPT's or Adaptec's. Development of the Buslogic line seems to have died. Given adaptec's new stance towards free OS's, and Mylex's closed-door policy, I can only imagine that the Adaptec drivers will continue to improve. On Tue, 28 Jul 1998 wayne@msen.com wrote: > > We have number of machines running BSD/OS with likely every model of > BusLogic controller ever made. We've started to move services to > FreeBSD and I finally took a good, long look at the driver code for > these cards. It's highly incomplete (no support for Sync, Fast, Ultra, > etc.) In another life, I'd offer to spend the time writing a real > driver but that's not an option for a while. While it would be fairly > easy to do some upgrades, real performance will require quite a bit > of work. > > Is there ANY active development going on for this product line or > should I just go out and buy Adaptec cards? There's no way I'm going > to run a news transit server that lives in the freenix top 300 in async > SCSI mode! > > /\/\ \/\/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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