From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jul 23 18:58:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA14328 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 18:58:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA14301 for ; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 18:57:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA26634; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 18:57:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 18:57:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Tom cc: Lee Reese , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Viability of -current for Usenet News In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Tom wrote: > > I've just seen a RedHat 5.1 system with a such a controller, hang. It > doesn't seem the Linux DPT driver is very stable. It seems easy to get > into a situation where all processes accessing the disk, hang. The > FreeBSD DPT driver seems quite a bit more solid than that, although > setting it up is more difficult. > Not really anymore, apparently the 2.2.7 boot floppy now has the driver built on it (yay!). Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message