From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Aug 18 13:48:21 1995 Return-Path: hardware-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id NAA23015 for hardware-outgoing; Fri, 18 Aug 1995 13:48:21 -0700 Received: from beru.wustl.edu (beru.wustl.edu [128.252.157.65]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id NAA23001 ; Fri, 18 Aug 1995 13:48:18 -0700 Received: by beru.wustl.edu (4.1/ECL-A1.21) id AA02496; Fri, 18 Aug 95 15:47:32 CDT Date: Fri, 18 Aug 95 15:47:32 CDT Message-Id: <9508182047.AA02496@beru.wustl.edu> From: Brian Gottlieb To: davidg@Root.COM Cc: "Justin T. Gibbs" , hardware@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: aha2490W? In-Reply-To: <199508182032.NAA02285@corbin.Root.COM> References: <199508182022.NAA20600@freefall.FreeBSD.org> <199508182032.NAA02285@corbin.Root.COM> Sender: hardware-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hmm..I just sent mail to Justin Gibbs, but since the thread is continuing, I'll ask publicly... David Greenman (David) writes: >> Two race conditions and many performance enhancements. I think that >> the -current code (other than some improvements in the error detection/ >> recovery code) will not change much in the future, and so far has >> proved to be rock solid. David> I plan to bring these improvements into -stable soon. I David> waiting on the outcome of tests with wcarchive (which has 3 David> AHA2940 controllers). Things right now look very good. Under 2.0.5 I am having writing large files to my Zip Drive hung on my 2940. Short transfers work fine, but if I try to copy a large file, the SCSI bus hangs after a little while, then eventually the machine freezes (when it tries to swap something back in, I suppose). I haven't had time to look at the problem in depth, but I have the error messages that were displayed on the console written down somewhere (I'll look for them when I get home). I think it was a device timeout or something. I'd like to try out the new driver to see if these improvements solve my problem. Will the -current driver drop nicely into 2.0.5R, or will I need to re-install the whole system from scratch? brian