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Date:      Mon, 27 Jul 1998 23:34:44 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        wayne@msen.com
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: BusTek/BusLogic/Mylex driver 
Message-ID:  <199807280634.XAA01210@antipodes.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 28 Jul 1998 01:32:39 EDT." <m0z12NL-0003cUC@ilium.troy.msen.com> 

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> 
> 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!

See ftp.freebsd.org:/pub/FreeBSD/cam/README, and note the snapshot 
releases in that directory.

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\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
\\  The race is long, and in the  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
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