Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 10:09:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Owens <owensc@enc.edu> To: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: any resolution to Adaptec Rev E issue? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980626095925.781C-100000@itsdsv2.enc.edu>
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Hi,
About a month ago there was discussion on this list of a problem seen
consitently with Adaptec 2940 boards labeled "Rev E". As of the last
posting, Justin Gibbs was apparantly going to try to reproduce the
problem.
Is there any news on this issue? Justin, were you able to reproduce the
problem? Any ideas about a fix?
I'm about to (today, I hope) place an order for 8 new PII servers, all
with 2940 or 3940 controllers. My supplier has indicated that the boards
he has are indeed Rev E. I'm a bit nervous about this.
Another supplier that I spoke with indicated that in general Adaptec has
been becoming increasingly less open with technical details on their
boards, which has resulted in drivers in the various open-source OS's
(FreeBSD, Linux, etc.) lagging behind product changes and being of
generally poorer quality. As such, the supplier (one of the bigger
Linux-oriented suppliers) on longer builds systems with Adaptec
controllers!
What's the feeling on this here? _Should_ I avoid the Adaptec boards? If
so, what's the preferred alternative? An NCR-chipset board from, say,
Symbois? Buslogic?
Thanks for any and all input!
Please be sure to cc: any replies to me directly, as I'm not subscribed to
this list.
Thanks,
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Charles N. Owens Email: owensc@enc.edu
http://www.enc.edu/~owensc
Network & Systems Administrator
Information Technology Services "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's
Eastern Nazarene College best friend. Inside of a dog it's
too dark to read." - Groucho Marx
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