From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 15 00:51:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA12963 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 15 Jul 1997 00:51:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA12948 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 1997 00:50:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA03848 for hackers@freefall.freebsd.org; Tue, 15 Jul 1997 09:50:57 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA06303; Tue, 15 Jul 1997 09:37:47 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970715093747.OA57762@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 09:37:47 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: aha1522 ?? References: <199707141943.OAA07339@beowulf.utmb.edu> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199707141943.OAA07339@beowulf.utmb.edu>; from M. L. Dodson on Jul 14, 1997 14:43:34 -0500 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As M. L. Dodson wrote: > > This is an understatement. I would call it ``basically unusable''. > > It suffers extensive bit-rot. > Doesn't the 1522 use the same driver as the little minimal controller > that comes with internal SCSI ZIP disks? It does. > I've been recommending that > to people to "gently" introduce them to SCSI (for SCSI tape drives, > for example). Is this status likely to remain this way? Unless you volunteer to change it, probably. Even if the driver were better, the AIC6[23]60 is a PIO-mode chip, which makes it suffering the same performance vs. CPU-load problems like IDE. Btw., since most machines these days are PCI anyway, you can always recommend the SymBios controllers (formerly NCR) for a cheap solution. They aren't only cheap, but powerful, and FreeBSD ships with a well- working driver for them (...says Joerg, typing this on a machine with two 53c810's). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)