From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jul 23 19:05:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA16040 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 19:05:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pop.uniserve.com (pop.uniserve.com [204.244.156.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA16022 for ; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 19:05:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tom@uniserve.com) Received: from shell.uniserve.ca [204.244.186.218] by pop.uniserve.com with smtp (Exim 1.82 #4) id 0yzXE3-0005Qd-00; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 19:04:51 -0700 Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 19:04:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom X-Sender: tom@shell.uniserve.ca To: Doug White 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, Doug White wrote: > 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!). Yes, but sysinstall bugs will probably force you to do most of the filesystem setup manually. See archives. > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message