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Date:      Thu, 23 Jul 1998 19:04:48 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Tom <tom@uniserve.com>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc:        Lee Reese <lee@gwinnett.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Viability of -current for Usenet News
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980723190320.27155A-100000@shell.uniserve.ca>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9807231856570.18410-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>

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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


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