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From: Shawn Leas <sleas@ixion.honeywell.com>
To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc: Tom <tom@uniserve.com>, Lee Reese <lee@gwinnett.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
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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.
> 
> &#@^! ... In what list?  It hasn't hit the archives and I haven't seen
> anything yet.  

I dunno, might he be thinking 2.2.2???  That one had a bug.  It's been a
little while, so I really don't remember exactly what it did, but it
mungled stuff up where you couldn't use sysinstall anymore.

-Shawn

> Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
> Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
> http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
> 
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