From owner-freebsd-scsi Thu Nov 25 13:22:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 858DC14EC9 for ; Thu, 25 Nov 1999 13:22:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: from yedi.iaf.nl (uucp@localhost) by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (8.9.2/8.9.2) with UUCP id WAA03873; Thu, 25 Nov 1999 22:06:01 +0100 (MET) Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA02714; Thu, 25 Nov 1999 21:59:12 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wilko) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199911252059.VAA02714@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: NEWS: SYM53C1010 and Ultra3 support In-Reply-To: from Gerard Roudier at "Nov 25, 1999 10:52:52 pm" To: groudier@club-internet.fr (Gerard Roudier) Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 21:59:12 +0100 (CET) Cc: winter@jurai.net, scsi@FreeBSD.ORG X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-pgp-info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org As Gerard Roudier wrote ... > > Isn't there a way to have sym understand both old and new chips, with the > > new chips result in a full featured driver, whereas at the same time > > the older chip revs run in 'compatibility mode'. Or does this introduce > > too much bloat? > > There is no way from me for either developing or maintaining the driver > you seem to want to have and I will _never_ use such a driver since I > know of either the complexity=less reliability or the lacking of feature > support such a driver would suffer of. OK, that is clear. > If such a driver ever comes from another source, this will not be a > problem for me at all, as you can guess. > > Don't misunderstand: I think getting a better NCR driver is an excellent > > development! > > I do misunderstood all of your postings, and btw, if the ncr driver would Please!! I am not attacking anyone, especially not you. > have appeared to me way broken or too much under-featured I would have It is my impression, but I could be wrong (read the freebsd-scsi archives) that the complexity and/or difficulty of the ncr driver was spurring the development of a successor (sym). > NCR has sold its micro-electronic department since about 7 years IIRC. > Advertising NCR when talking about the SYM53C8XX family does not make > sense since years. SYMBIOS ingenieers have done a _great_ job in the > enhancement of the 53C8XX family and AFAIK the SYMBIOS brand name still > exists (you may have a look at LSILOGIC site). I know. And we almost lost Symbios to Adaptec too. Fortunately that did not happen. Wilko -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands - Powered by FreeBSD - |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message