From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Mar 6 00:23:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA03720 for stable-outgoing; Thu, 6 Mar 1997 00:23:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from proxy3.ba.best.com (root@proxy3.ba.best.com [206.184.139.14]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA03701; Thu, 6 Mar 1997 00:23:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from shellx.best.com (shellx.best.com [206.86.0.11]) by proxy3.ba.best.com (8.8.5/8.8.3) with SMTP id AAA11827; Thu, 6 Mar 1997 00:22:17 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 00:22:16 -0800 (PST) From: Pierre Omidyar X-Sender: pierre@shellx.best.com To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: new stable aic7xxx.c ? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello all, We are running the release version of 2.1.7-RELEASE. We just did a cvsup for stable again, and retrieved several new files, including a new version of aic7xxx.c (and other assorted files): $Id: aic7xxx.c,v 1.29.2.32 1997/02/25 03:54:28 gibbs Exp $ Is this intended as an actual 2.1.7-STABLE addition? The reason I ask is that we have been plagued with numerous "timed out while idle" messages and freezes or panics ever since moving from 2.1.5 to 2.1.7. We have an Adaptec 2940UW hooked up to several Quantum Atlas drives (current rev of 915L). A few other sites have reported similar problems since moving from 2.1.5 to 2.1.7. And, the problem seems worse the more drives are on the SCSI bus. (We previously sent a more detailed description of what we were seeing to freebsd-stable.) Anyway, my hope is that this new version of the adaptec-related scsi drivers are intended to address this problem. But, we are aware that some files may make it into the cvsup-able stable distribution prior to their intended release, and I wanted to check here since I hadn't seen these changes mentioned on this list. (cc'd to freebsd-scsi as well, and apologies if this has been covered there previously.) Thanks for any help you may be able to offer. Regards, Pierre