From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jul 23 20:21:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA28366 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 20:21:22 -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 UAA28360 for ; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 20:21:20 -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 UAA11330; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 20:20:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 20:20:55 -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!). > > Yes, but sysinstall bugs will probably force you to do most of the > filesystem setup manually. See archives. &#@^! ... In what list? It hasn't hit the archives and I haven't seen anything yet. 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