From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 14 12:46:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA10130 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 14 Jul 1997 12:46:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from beowulf.utmb.edu (beowulf.utmb.edu [129.109.59.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA10122 for ; Mon, 14 Jul 1997 12:46:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bdodson@localhost) by beowulf.utmb.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA07339 for hackers@freefall.freebsd.org; Mon, 14 Jul 1997 14:43:34 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 14:43:34 -0500 (CDT) From: "M. L. Dodson" Message-Id: <199707141943.OAA07339@beowulf.utmb.edu> To: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: aha1522 ?? X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > As Amancio Hasty wrote: > > > Do we have an aha1522 expert? > > Many. :-) > > > > I have a strong suspicion that the FreeBSD AHA1522 driver is a little > > > flaky. > > This is an understatement. I would call it ``basically unusable''. > It suffers extensive bit-rot. I have removed it from the list of > supported devices in the release notes. > Whoops! Doesn't the 1522 use the same driver as the little minimal controller that comes with internal SCSI ZIP disks? I've been recommending that to people to "gently" introduce them to SCSI (for SCSI tape drives, for example). Is this status likely to remain this way? If so, I'll have to change my errant ways :) Bud Dodson > This should probably be merged into the 2.2 branch as well. > - -- > cheers, J"org > > joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE > Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) > > ------------------------------ > -- M. L. Dodson bdodson@scms.utmb.edu 409-772-2178 FAX: 409-772-1790