Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 15:00:59 -0600 (MDT) From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com> To: Charles Owens <owensc@enc.edu> Cc: scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: any resolution to Adaptec Rev E issue? Message-ID: <199806262100.PAA06346@narnia.plutotech.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980626095925.781C-100000@itsdsv2.enc.edu>
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In article <Pine.BSF.3.96.980626095925.781C-100000@itsdsv2.enc.edu> you wrote: > 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 have been able to reproduce the problem, but I do not have a fix yet. I will post to this list when a fix becomes available. > 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. I would be too. > 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! That supplier is just complaining because the Linux driver port of my work always lags by several months and the Linux mid-level SCSI layer is so poor that they have to put tons of hacks in the code in a lame attempt to make it work correctly with things like tagged queuing. The FreeBSD driver actually outperforms the Adaptec NT driver by quite a bit. > Please be sure to cc: any replies to me directly, as I'm not subscribed to > this list. Please join the list instead. That way the people busy trying to fix the problems your asking about don't have to repeat themselves all the time. -- Justin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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