From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 27 22:59:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA07698 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 22:59:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail-01.cdsnet.net (mail-01.cdsnet.net [206.107.16.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA07692 for ; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 22:59:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mrcpu@internetcds.com) Received: (qmail 828 invoked from network); 28 Jul 1998 05:58:41 -0000 Received: from schizo.cdsnet.net (204.118.244.32) by mail.cdsnet.net with SMTP; 28 Jul 1998 05:58:41 -0000 Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 22:58:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Jaye Mathisen X-Sender: mrcpu@schizo.cdsnet.net To: wayne@msen.com cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BusTek/BusLogic/Mylex driver In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Get DPT's or Adaptec's. Development of the Buslogic line seems to have died. Given adaptec's new stance towards free OS's, and Mylex's closed-door policy, I can only imagine that the Adaptec drivers will continue to improve. On Tue, 28 Jul 1998 wayne@msen.com wrote: > > We have number of machines running BSD/OS with likely every model of > BusLogic controller ever made. We've started to move services to > FreeBSD and I finally took a good, long look at the driver code for > these cards. It's highly incomplete (no support for Sync, Fast, Ultra, > etc.) In another life, I'd offer to spend the time writing a real > driver but that's not an option for a while. While it would be fairly > easy to do some upgrades, real performance will require quite a bit > of work. > > Is there ANY active development going on for this product line or > should I just go out and buy Adaptec cards? There's no way I'm going > to run a news transit server that lives in the freenix top 300 in async > SCSI mode! > > /\/\ \/\/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message