From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jan 22 22:18:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-stable Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA03676 for stable-outgoing; Mon, 22 Jan 1996 22:18:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from haven.uniserve.com (haven.uniserve.com [198.53.215.121]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA03663 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 1996 22:18:18 -0800 (PST) Received: by haven.uniserve.com id <30773-4>; Mon, 22 Jan 1996 22:20:38 -0000 Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 22:20:36 -0800 (PST) From: Tom Samplonius To: "Justin T. Gibbs" cc: hwr@pilhuhn.de, stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: spontaneous reboot with -stable In-Reply-To: <199601222217.OAA21401@freefall.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-stable@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 22 Jan 1996, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: > >In article , Tom S > >amplonius wrote: > >> Not if you have a 2940. The new ahc driver is really, really nice in > >>comparison to the old one. I'm now seeing record uptime's on a -stable > >>system. > > > >I guess that is what really worries me .. the new driver is not out for > >a longe time yet ... > > > >-- > >Heiko W.Rupp hwr@pilhhuhn.de > >INN FAQ can be found in ftp://ftp.xlink.net/pub/news/docs/ > > > > I wouldn't touch the old driver with a 10 foot pole. Most > of the stability problems I've seen have a conection to the ep driver > or the reordering of probes (ISA comes last). I haven't had > time to look into these problem yet, but I will after USENIX. > -- > Justin T. Gibbs I agree completely. Although, I'm still using a preliminary version of the new driver, I'm seeing a record uptime of 14 days and counting. Previously, the record was 10 days, followed by 3 days. Every other time it would crash consistently every two days. Tom