From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 12 05:18:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA28594 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 05:18:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA28589 for ; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 05:18:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Root.COM (8.7.5/8.6.5) with SMTP id FAA00971; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 05:18:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199606121218.FAA00971@Root.COM> X-Authentication-Warning: implode.Root.COM: Host localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells) cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: adaptec disk controllers and 2.1-RELEASE In-reply-to: Your message of "11 Jun 1996 20:11:45 EDT." <4pl201$rov@twwells.com> From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 05:18:42 -0700 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >In article <199606112325.QAA02664@Root.COM>, >David Greenman wrote: >: >I'm using an adaptec 2940 on my news server. I've been told that >: >the occasional panics (something about scsi bus timeouts?) have >: >been resolved by a -STABLE release; however, when I installed the >: >first of them (well, partially: I swapped kernels and /bin), I >: >got a flood of complaints that my server was failing. >: >: Justin is out of town this week. You should upgrade to -stable. > >The current -stable, which is the second one? Didn't I just read >of problems with it? -stable is not a release. It refers to a branch of our CVS tree. There was a recent snapshot of -stable, but it doesn't have the latest aha2940 fixes. When I said "upgrade to -stable", I meant using SUP to update your source tree to the current -stable sources. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project