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From: "John A. Booth" <john@ulantris.infinop.com>
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Subject: Re: adaptec disk controllers and 2.1-RELEASE
To: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 16:52:58 -0500 (CDT)
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In-Reply-To: <4pkol2$pce@twwells.com> from "T. William Wells" at Jun 11, 96 05:32:18 pm
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> 
> I'm using an adaptec 2940 on my news server. I've been told that
> the occasional panics (something about scsi bus timeouts?) have
> been resolved by a -STABLE release; however, when I installed the
> first of them (well, partially: I swapped kernels and /bin), I
> got a flood of complaints that my server was failing.
> 
I personally would recommend against going half way into an upgrade like
that, I've had bad past experiences.

If you feel you need to give it a while, try the whole thing on a somewhat
busy (hopefully not-critical machine).