From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 27 23:35:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA13679 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 23:35:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (castles301.castles.com [208.214.167.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA13673 for ; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 23:35:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA01210; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 23:34:45 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199807280634.XAA01210@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: wayne@msen.com cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BusTek/BusLogic/Mylex driver In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 28 Jul 1998 01:32:39 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 23:34:44 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message