From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 19 17:53:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA12783 for current-outgoing; Wed, 19 Mar 1997 17:53:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from mercury.uniserve.com (mercury.uniserve.com [204.191.197.248]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA12768 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 1997 17:53:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from haven.uniserve.com (haven.uniserve.com [198.53.215.121]) by mercury.uniserve.com (8.8.2/8.8.2) with SMTP id RAA26146; Wed, 19 Mar 1997 17:41:34 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 17:47:18 -0800 (PST) From: Tom Samplonius To: Tim Liddelow cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2940 driver bug In-Reply-To: <33308605.59E2B600@cst.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 20 Mar 1997, Tim Liddelow wrote: > Is the AHA 2940 driver bug (just recently fixed as per your > announcement) present in 2.2-RELEASE ? I have just been given > a machine to install *BSD on, and the SCSI controller just > happens to be a 2940. Am I better off going with 2.1.7.1 or > 2.2-RELEASE ? > > Thanks > Tim Liddelow If you want to install a pre-built release, installing 2.1.7.1-RELEASE If you don't mind pulling the kerenel sources down for 2.2+ (basically 2.2-RELEASE + later patches), and making a new kernel, go ahead and install 2.2. 2.2+ has the same driver as 2.1.7.1-RELEASE The ahc driver used by the 2940, is a moving target. I have an oldish pre 2.1.7 system with a 2940 with an uptime of 140 days. I don't use any of the performance ehancements though. But I have a 2.2 system with the newest ahc driver dies with a SCSI error every day (using a 3940UW though). Tom