From owner-freebsd-stable Tue May 26 10:40:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA12556 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Tue, 26 May 1998 10:40:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA12355; Tue, 26 May 1998 10:39:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA20179; Tue, 26 May 1998 12:39:04 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) From: "John S. Dyson" Message-Id: <199805261739.MAA20179@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: DPT install problem In-Reply-To: from Simon Shapiro at "May 26, 98 01:06:15 pm" To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 12:39:04 -0500 (EST) Cc: mike@smith.net.au, tom@sdf.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > On 22-May-98 Mike Smith wrote: > >> > >> > However, there are a couple of things that you personally (and other > >> > concerned users) can do to help the situation. > >> > > >> > - Contribute commentary (as you have), documentation and source/ > >> > procedural fixes. Remeber that FreeBSD is a volunteer project - > >> > your support means that it will continue to improve. > >> > - Donate a DPT controller to our testing pool so that we can test > >> > with it. Chances are we can scrape enough disks together in one > >> > place to meet the 20GB mark if we have one. > >> > >> I recently donated TWO DPT controllers and FIVE disk drives. They went > >> to > >> two separate FreeBSD prominent figures, but still do not add up to 20GB. > > > > Then we need some accountability from these prominent figures. Where > > is their feedback on this discussion? > Do you want working kernel threads and SMP or DPT support? I am working feverishly on the SMP and kernel threads stuff, and physically cannot do any more in the day. I do plan to work on the DPT stuff, but I can only do one type of thing at a time... John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message