Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 12:56:22 +0200 (MET DST) From: Gerard Roudier <groudier@club-internet.fr> To: scsi@FreeBSD.org Subject: SYM driver 0.6.0 -> BETA Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.991003125219.718A-100000@localhost>
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Hello, I just made available sym driver release 0.6.0 at: ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/roudier/drivers/freebsd/experimental/ Since I have completed successfully all the testings I had planned, and based on the few number of problem reports I received (all have hopefully been fixed), I have decided to switch the sym driver status to BETA-RELEASE for the support of SPI2 and i386 architecture. The testings of the C1010 support (Ultra-3 DT data transfer support) is planned to be performed at LSILOGIC by Pamela Delaney <pam.delaney@lsil.com>, since I haven't all needed hardware resources for that testings, neither I have time enough for. Pamela has added support for the C1010 to the Linux sym53c8xx driver and her current sym53c8xx driver version is working quite well with C1010 revision 0. I donnot have information about the availibility of C1010 based controllers. Hopefully this will happen at the beginning of Year 2000 or just before. The purpose of the sym_hipd driver for FreeBSD is to provide the best possible support for 810A, 860, 825A, 875, 876, 885, 895, 895A, 896 and 1010 SYMBIOS/LSI PCI-SCSI controllers which is not provided by the stock ncr driver. The old chips (810, 815, 825), that are not supported by the sym_hipd driver can be reasonnably supported by the ncr driver that had been designed and implemented at the time of the 810/815/825. I also have planned to propose some minor enhancements and to rewrite some code related to FreeBSD-CAM in the ncr driver. Performance comparisons between the ncr and the sym drivers may allow to suspect bugs in a driver or to give clues about pathes in the ncr driver that need to be improved. People who may want to demonstrate that ncr is faster than sym are wasting their time in my not so humble opinion. On the other hand, it would be interesting to have some results addressing reliability and performances comparisons against equivalent host adapters from other vendors (given reasonnable SIM). For now, I didn't received any result of this kind. Even if my crystal ball has told me about the reasons of this lacking of reports, I would be glad to check how it has been right. ;-) Thanks in advance for the reports. Gérard. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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