Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 22:57:04 -0500 (CDT) 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 Subject: Re: Viability of -current for Usenet News Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.96.980723225544.24765A-100000@ixion.honeywell.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9807232018500.18410-100000@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. > > &#@^! ... 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 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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